CVE-2019-6972

Published Jun 19, 2019 CVSS 3.0 · 7.5 High EPSS 1.1% KEV · Not listed
Description
An issue was discovered on TP-Link TL-WR1043ND V2 devices. The credentials can be easily decoded and cracked by brute-force, WordList, or Rainbow Table attacks. Specifically, credentials in the "Authorization" cookie are encoded with URL encoding and base64, leading to easy decoding. Also, the username is cleartext, and the password is hashed with the MD5 algorithm (after decoding of the URL encoded string with base64).

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-16525 An issue was discovered on TP-Link TL-WR1043ND V2 devices. The credentials can be easily decoded and cracked by brute-force, WordList, or Rainbow Table attacks. Specifically, credentials in the "Authorization" cookie are encoded with URL encoding and base64, leading to easy decoding. Also, the username is cleartext, and the password is hashed with the MD5 algorithm (after decoding of the URL encoded string with base64).
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00148}

epss

{'score': 0.00183}

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 4, 2024, 8:38 PM
Reserved
Jan 25, 2019, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jun 19, 2019, 3:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 2:39 AM