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CVE-2017-11519

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-07-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-335

Description

passwd_recovery.lua on the TP-Link Archer C9(UN)_V2_160517 allows an attacker to reset the admin password by leveraging a predictable random number generator seed. This is fixed in C9(UN)_V2_170511.

Affected products

• TP-Link Archer C9 (2.0) Firmware: 160517

References

• http://www.tp-link.com/en/download/Archer-C9_V2.html#Firmware
• https://devcraft.io/posts/2017/07/21/tp-link-archer-c9-admin-password-reset.html
• http://www.tp-link.com/en/download/Archer-C9_V2.html#Firmware
• https://devcraft.io/posts/2017/07/21/tp-link-archer-c9-admin-password-reset.html

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