What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-40288

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2021-12-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-290

Description

A denial-of-service attack in WPA2, and WPA3-SAE authentication methods in TP-Link AX10v1 before V1_211014, allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to disconnect an already connected wireless client via sending with a wireless adapter specific spoofed authentication frames

Affected products

• TP-Link Archer Ax10 Firmware: before v1_211014 — fixed in v1_211014

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: TP-Link Archer Ax10 Firmware v1_211014. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/download/archer-ax10/v1/#Firmware
• https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/download/archer-ax10/v1/#Firmware

Get alerted when CVE-2021-40288 or the next vulnerability affects your stack