CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-11519
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-07-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-335
Description
passwd_recovery.lua on the TP-Link Archer C9(UN)_V2_160517 allows an attacker to reset the admin password by leveraging a predictable random number generator seed. This is fixed in C9(UN)_V2_170511.
Affected configurations
• tp-link archer c9 \(2.0\) firmware 160517
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-335 Incorrect Usage of Seeds in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) weakness
References
- http://www.tp-link.com/en/download/Archer-C9_V2.html#Firmware Third Party Advisory
- https://devcraft.io/posts/2017/07/21/tp-link-archer-c9-admin-password-reset.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.tp-link.com/en/download/Archer-C9_V2.html#Firmware Third Party Advisory
- https://devcraft.io/posts/2017/07/21/tp-link-archer-c9-admin-password-reset.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory