CVE-2019-6972

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Summary

CVECVE-2019-6972
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-06-19 15:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-08-24 17:37:00 UTC
DescriptionAn 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).

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-326

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Hardware Tp-link Tl-wr1043nd - All All All
Hardware Tp-link Tl-wr1043nd - All All All
Operating System Tp-link Tl-wr1043nd Firmware 2.0 All All All
Operating System Tp-link Tl-wr1043nd Firmware 2.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Vulnerability-Research/TL-WR1043ND_PoC.pdf at master · MalFuzzer/Vulnerability-Research · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Uriel Kosayev na Twitterze: "Recently I found a vulnerability in TP-Link's home router. Below is the link to the PoC ????#TPLink #Vulnerability #AuthenticationBypass https://t.co/JxAsVdlMmF… https://t.co/17GNebnwpR" MISC twitter.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
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