Riskcovery

CVE-2025-6982

Hardcoded DES Decryption Keys in TP-Link Archer C50 V3/V4/V5 and C20 V5

State
Published
Severity
6.9 Medium
Published
Jul 16, 2025
Updated
Apr 22, 2026
Reserved
Jul 1, 2025

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Description

Use of Hard-coded Credentials in TP-Link Archer C50 V3(

<=

180703)/V4(

<=

250117

)/V5(

<=

200407

), and C20 V5 (<US_V5_260419 or <EU_V5_260317) allows attackers to decrypt the config.xml files.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.06.9 MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NTPLink

Weaknesses

  • CWE-798 Use of Hard-coded Credentials

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Archer C50 V3TP-Link Systems Inc.
  • 180703 and earlierAffected
Archer C50 V4TP-Link Systems Inc.
  • 250117 and earlierAffected
Archer C50 V5TP-Link Systems Inc.
  • 200407 and earlierAffected
Archer C20 V5TP-Link Systems Inc.
  • before US_V5_260419Affected
  • before EU_V5_260317Affected

References

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