CVE-2008-4540 describes a vulnerability in Windows Mobile 6 on the HTC Hermes device, where WLAN passwords are exposed via an auto-completion feature in the password input field. This allows physically proximate attackers to bypass password authentication and gain unauthorized WLAN access. The vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N), indicating local access, low attack complexity, no authentication required, and partial confidentiality impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, no known exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, and minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_mobile:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.