CVE-2019-6972: TP-Link Tl-WR1043ND Firmware

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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).

Affected products

• TP-Link Tl-WR1043ND Firmware: version 2.0 only

Published 2019-06-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.