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CVE-2019-6972
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2019-06-19 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-326
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).
Affected products
References
- https://github.com/MalFuzzer/Vulnerability-Research/blob/master/TL-WR1043ND%20V2%20-%20TP-LINK/TL-WR1043ND_PoC.pdf
- https://twitter.com/MalFuzzer/status/1141269335685652480?s=19
- https://github.com/MalFuzzer/Vulnerability-Research/blob/master/TL-WR1043ND%20V2%20-%20TP-LINK/TL-WR1043ND_PoC.pdf
- https://twitter.com/MalFuzzer/status/1141269335685652480?s=19
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