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CVE-2022-41540

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-10-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-798

Description

The web app client of TP-Link AX10v1 V1_211117 uses hard-coded cryptographic keys when communicating with the router. Attackers who are able to intercept the communications between the web client and router through a man-in-the-middle attack can then obtain the sequence key via a brute-force attack, and access sensitive information.

Affected products

• TP-Link Ax10 Firmware: v1_211117

References

• https://github.com/efchatz/easy-exploits/tree/main/Web/TP-Link/Offline-decryption
• https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/download/archer-ax10/v1/#Firmware
• https://github.com/efchatz/easy-exploits/tree/main/Web/TP-Link/Offline-decryption
• https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/download/archer-ax10/v1/#Firmware

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