CVE-2022-40855 — Tenda W20E router V15

Tenda W20E router V15.11.0.6 contains a stack overflow in the function formSetPortMapping with post request 'goform/setPortMapping/'. This vulnerability allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) or Remote Code Execution (RCE) via the portMappingServer, portMap

01What is this vulnerability?

Tenda W20E router V15.11.0.6 contains a stack overflow in the function formSetPortMapping with post request 'goform/setPortMapping/'. This vulnerability allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) or Remote Code Execution (RCE) via the portMappingServer, portMappingProtocol, portMappingWan, porMappingtInternal, and portMappingExternal parameters.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

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: 2022-09-23T14:29:36.000Z
• Last modified: 2025-05-22T20:01:35.441Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/CPSeek/Router-vuls/blob/main/Tenda/W20E/formSetPortMapping.md