CVE-2025-6982 (GCVE-0-2025-6982)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-16 20:01
Modified
2025-11-03 20:07
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
Summary
Use of Hard-coded Credentials in TP-Link Archer C50 V3( <= 180703)/V4( <= 250117 )/V5( <= 200407 ), allows attackers to decrypt the config.xml files.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
TP-Link System Inc. Archer C50 V3 Version: 0
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