CVE-2026-30816 (GCVE-0-2026-30816)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-04-08 17:53
Modified
2026-04-08 19:21
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-15 - External control of system or configuration setting
Summary
An external control of configuration vulnerability in the OpenVPN module of TP-Link AX53 v1.0 allows an authenticated adjacent attacker to read arbitrary file when a malicious configuration file is processed.
Successful
exploitation may allow unauthorized access to arbitrary files on the device,
potentially exposing sensitive information.This issue affects AX53 v1.0: before 1.7.1 Build 20260213.
References
| URL | Tags | |
|---|---|---|
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TP-Link Systems Inc. | AX53 v1.0 |
Version: 0 < 1.7.1 Build 20260213 |
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