# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-11405"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-06T19:17:07.891Z"
updatedAt: "2026-07-08T13:40:24.471Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:50.502Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-11405"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-11405.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-11405"
title: "Hidden backdoor authentication mechanism in multiple versions of Tenda firmware allows admin access to web management interface"
summary: "The web server binary /bin/httpd contains a hidden backdoor authentication mechanism in the login() function at 004c88b8.\r\n\r\n- The function contains a normal authentication path using MD5/hash-based password verification (prod_encode64/PasswordToMd5/check_rand_key).\r\n- After normal authentication fails, it calls GetValue(\"sys.rzadmin.password\") to read a backdoor password from the device configuration.\r\n- It performs a direct strcmp() comparison (plaintext, not hashed) between the config value and the user-supplied password.\r\n\r\nA successful match grants role=2 (admin-level access) and creates a valid session. The rzadmin username is never checked — any username works with the backdoor"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"US_AC6V2.0RTL_V15.03.06.51_multi_T","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"Tenda","product":"firmware"},{"versions":[{"version":"US_AC5V1.0RTL_V15.03.06.48_multi_TDE01","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"Tenda","product":"firmware"},{"versions":[{"version":"US_AC10V1.0re_V15.03.06.46_multi_TDE01","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"Tenda","product":"firmware"},{"versions":[{"version":"US_W15EV1.0br_V15.11.0.5(1068_1567_841)_EN_TDE","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"Tenda","product":"firmware"},{"versions":[{"version":"US_FH1201V1.0BR_V1.2.0.14(408)_EN_TD","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"Tenda","product":"firmware"}]

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