CVE-2025-14739Uninitialized Pointer Vulnerability in TP-Link WR940N and WR941ND
- 6.8MediumCVSS base score
- 0.21%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 88% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Access of Uninitialized Pointer vulnerability in TP-Link WR940N and WR941ND allows local unauthenticated attackers the ability to execute DoS attack and potentially arbitrary code execution under the context of the ‘root’ user.This issue affects WR940N and WR941ND: ≤ WR940N v5 3.20.1 Build 200316, ≤ WR941ND v6 3.16.9 Build 151203.
Timeline
ID reserved
By TPLink
- 3 days later
· 3 days later
Published
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| TPLinkCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | Medium6.8 | CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 4.0 | Medium6.8 | CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.21% · top 88% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Affected products
TP-Link Systems Inc. · WR940N and WR941ND
- affected ≤ WR940N v5 3.20.1 Build 200316
- affected ≤ WR941ND v6 3.16.9 Build 151203
References
References4
- https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/download/tl-wr941nd/#Firmware (opens in a new tab)
- https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/download/tl-wr940n/v5/#Firmware (opens in a new tab)
- https://blog.exodusintel.com/2022/06/23/tp-link-wr940n-wr941nd-uninitialized-pointer-vulnerability/ (opens in a new tab)
- https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/faq/4848/ (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-204373 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2025-14739)Record last updated .