{"id":"CVE-2026-5363","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-5363","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T00:19:10.835Z","title":"Inadequate Encryption Strength vulnerability in TP-Link Archer C7 v5 and v5.8 (uhttpd modules) allows Password Recovery Exploitation.","description":"Inadequate Encryption Strength vulnerability in TP-Link Archer C7 v5 and v5.8 (uhttpd modules) allows Password Recovery Exploitation. The web interface encrypts the admin password client-side using RSA-1024 before sending it to the router during login. \nAn adjacent attacker with the ability to intercept network traffic could potentially perform a brute-force or factorization attack against the 1024-bit RSA key to recover the plaintext administrator password, leading to unauthorized access and compromise of the device configuration.  This issue affects Archer C7: through Build 20220715.","published":"2026-04-16T00:16:30.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-26T21:10:00.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"f23511db-6c3e-4e32-a477-6aa17d310630","cvss":{"version":"4.0","score":5.4,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M"},"cwe":["CWE-326"],"affected":["tp-link/archer c7 firmware"],"epss":{"score":0.00091,"percentile":0.00454,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.09%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/faq/3562/","tags":["Not Applicable"],"source":"f23511db-6c3e-4e32-a477-6aa17d310630"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-5363","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}