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TI-2019-04908 Aliases CVE-2019-6972GHSA-pmm5-wjxf-w7h9

An issue was discovered on TP-Link TL-WR1043ND V2 devices.

Priority LOW 35CWE-326Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Information disclosure
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · None · None
Fix status
No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.0 · NVD. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-326.

Summary

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).

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.01114 66th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Public exploit Yes 2 exploit referencesTagged by NVD
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
——all versions—No fix listedCNA
  • — Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 2

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:o:tp-link:tl-wr1043nd_firmware:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*2.0VulnerableTP-Link
cpe:2.3:h:tp-link:tl-wr1043nd:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*not specified by NVDRunning onTP-Link
  • cpe:2.3:o:tp-link:tl-wr1043nd_firmware:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 2.0 Vulnerable ·TP-Link
  • cpe:2.3:h:tp-link:tl-wr1043nd:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions not specified by NVD Running on ·TP-Link

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2019-6972
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-pmm5-wjxf-w7h9

References

Exploit 2

  • TI-2019-04907 An issue was discovered on TP-Link TL-WR1043ND V2 devices. CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2018-11529 Stack-based buffer overflow in the httpd server of TP-Link WR1043nd (Firmware Version 3)… CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.2
  • TI-2013-02329 TP-LINK TL-WR1043ND V1_120405 devices contain an unspecified denial of service vulnerability. CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5

Sources

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