CVE-2022-32967 — RTL8111EP-CG/RTL8111FP-CG DASH function has hard-coded password

RTL8111EP-CG/RTL8111FP-CG DASH function has hard-coded password. An unauthenticated physical attacker can use the hard-coded default password during system reboot triggered by other user, to acquire partial system information such as serial number and server information.

01What is this vulnerability?

RTL8111EP-CG/RTL8111FP-CG DASH function has hard-coded password. An unauthenticated physical attacker can use the hard-coded default password during system reboot triggered by other user, to acquire partial system information such as serial number and server information.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Realtek	RTL8111EP	CG — unspecified, 5.0.10
Realtek	RTL8111FP	CG — unspecified, 5.0.10

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2022-11-29T03:30:27.572Z
• Last modified: 2025-04-23T14:33:40.929Z

09References

• www.twcert.org.tw — https://www.twcert.org.tw/tw/cp-132-6740-ba9bd-1.html