CVE-2026-5363

Use of weak cryptographic key in TP-Link Archer C7

State
Published
Severity
5.4 Medium
Published
Apr 15, 2026
Updated
Apr 16, 2026
Reserved
Apr 1, 2026

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Description

Inadequate Encryption Strength vulnerability in TP-Link Archer C7 v5 and v5.8 (uhttpd modules) allows Password Recovery Exploitation. The web interface encrypts the admin password client-side using RSA-1024 before sending it to the router during login.  An adjacent attacker with the ability to intercept network traffic could potentially perform a brute-force or factorization attack against the 1024-bit RSA key to recover the plaintext administrator password, leading to unauthorized access and compromise of the device configuration.  This issue affects Archer C7: through Build 20220715.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.05.4 MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:PTPLink

Weaknesses

  • CWE-326 Inadequate Encryption Strength

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Archer C7 v5 and v5.8TP-Link Systems Inc.
  • Build 20220715 and earlierAffected

References

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