CVE-2019-6972

High

Description

An issue was discovered on TP-Link TL-WR1043ND V2 devices. The credentials can be easily decoded and cracked by brute-force, WordList, or Rainbow Table attacks. Specifically, credentials in the "Authorization" cookie are encoded with URL encoding and base64, leading to easy decoding. Also, the username is cleartext, and the password is hashed with the MD5 algorithm (after decoding of the URL encoded string with base64).

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.5
Exploit probability—
ProductTp-link Tl-wr1043nd Firmware
PublishedJun 19, 2019
First seenJun 19, 2019

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
tp-link tl-wr1043nd_firmware2.0—

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