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CVE-2025-62673: Heap-based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Archer AX53 and AX12

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.0 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-02-03 · updated 2026-09-22
• Weakness: CWE-122

Description

Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Archer AX53 v1.0 and AX12 v1.0 (tdpserver modules) allows adjacent attackers to cause a segmentation fault or potentially execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted network packet containing a maliciously formed field. This issue affects Archer AX53 v1.0: through 1.3.1 Build 20241120 and Archer AX12 v1.0: up to 1.5.1 Build 20260721.

Affected products

• TP-Link Systems Inc. Archer AX53 v1.0: 1.0

References

• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/
• https://www.tp-link.com/en/support/download/archer-ax12/#Firmware
• https://www.tp-link.com/en/support/download/archer-ax53/v1/#Firmware
• https://www.tp-link.com/kr/support/download/archer-ax12/#Firmware
• https://www.tp-link.com/my/support/download/archer-ax53/v1/#Firmware
• https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/faq/4943/
• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2025-2290

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