Coverage › CVE-2020-24363
CVE-2020-24363 Unmapped
TP-link TL-WA855RE Missing Authentication for Critical Function Vulnerability
- Vendor / product
- TP-Link — TL-WA855RE
- Description (CISA)
- TP-link TL-WA855RE contains a missing authentication for critical function vulnerability. This vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated attacker (on the same network) to submit a TDDP_RESET POST request for a factory reset and reboot. The attacker can then obtain incorrect access control by setting a new administrative password. The impacted products could be end-of-life (EoL) and/or end-of-service (EoS). Users should discontinue product utilization.
- Added to KEV
- 2025-09-02 — after the latest CTID mapping snapshot (2025-07-28)
- Due date
- 2025-09-23
- Required action
- Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
- Known ransomware use
- Unknown
- CWE
- CWE-306
- CISA notes
- https://www.tp-link.com/us/home-networking/range-extender/tl-wa855re/#overview
https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/download/tl-wa855re/#FAQs
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-24363 - Elsewhere
- cve.org · NVD · CISA KEV · JSON
ATT&CK techniques
No public source states how this vulnerability is exploited in ATT&CK terms.
The only authoritative CVE → ATT&CK mapping in the open — CTID's Mappings Explorer, pinned to a KEV snapshot of 2025-07-28 and ATT&CK 16.1 — does not include CVE-2020-24363. This entry was added to KEV on 2025-09-02, after that snapshot; of the 283 entries added since, 0 have a mapping. CISA's catalogue carries no technique field. kevmap does not infer techniques from the CWE (CWE-306) — here is why — and does not guess.
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