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2 vulnerabilities found for Archer C50 V5 by TP-Link Systems Inc.

CVE-2025-6982 (GCVE-0-2025-6982)

Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2025-07-16 20:01 – Updated: 2026-04-22 21:24 Unsupported When Assigned
VLAI?
Title
Hardcoded DES Decryption Keys in TP-Link Archer C50 V3/V4/V5 and C20 V5
Summary
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.
Severity ?
6.9 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE
  • CWE-798 - Use of Hard-coded Credentials
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
TP-Link Systems Inc. Archer C50 V3 Affected: 0 , ≤ 180703 (date)
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    TP-Link Systems Inc. Archer C50 V4 Affected: 0 , ≤ 250117 (date)
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    TP-Link Systems Inc. Archer C50 V5 Affected: 0 , ≤ 200407 (date)
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    TP-Link Systems Inc. Archer C20 V5 Affected: 0 , < US_V5_260419 (custom)
Affected: 0 , < EU_V5_260317 (custom)
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Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-16 20:01 – Updated: 2026-04-22 21:24 Unsupported When Assigned
VLAI?
Title
Hardcoded DES Decryption Keys in TP-Link Archer C50 V3/V4/V5 and C20 V5
Summary
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.
Severity ?
6.9 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE
  • CWE-798 - Use of Hard-coded Credentials
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
TP-Link Systems Inc. Archer C50 V3 Affected: 0 , ≤ 180703 (date)
Create a notification for this product.
    TP-Link Systems Inc. Archer C50 V4 Affected: 0 , ≤ 250117 (date)
Create a notification for this product.
    TP-Link Systems Inc. Archer C50 V5 Affected: 0 , ≤ 200407 (date)
Create a notification for this product.
    TP-Link Systems Inc. Archer C20 V5 Affected: 0 , < US_V5_260419 (custom)
Affected: 0 , < EU_V5_260317 (custom)
Create a notification for this product.
Show details on NVD website
To clipboard 

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