{"id":81994,"date":"2026-07-14T22:48:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T19:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-5040-weak-password-hashing-mechanism-in-tp-link-deco-m5\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T22:48:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T19:18:03","slug":"cve-2026-5040-weak-password-hashing-mechanism-in-tp-link-deco-m5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-5040-weak-password-hashing-mechanism-in-tp-link-deco-m5\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-5040 &#8211; Weak Password Hashing Mechanism in TP-Link Deco M5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-5040<\/p>\n<p>  Published : July 14, 2026, 7:18 p.m. | 13\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :TP-Link Deco M5 v1 uses a weak password hashing mechanism to store user credentials.  An attacker who obtains the password hash through system compromise or privileged access could perform brute-force or dictionary attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Successful exploitation may result in disclosure of authentication credentials, enabling unauthorized access to device management functions, depending on the privileges associated with the recovered password. The primary security impact is loss of confidentiality.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 7.1 | HIGH<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-5040 Published : July 14, 2026, 7:18 p.m. | 13\u00a0minutes ago Description :TP-Link Deco M5 v1 uses a weak password hashing mechanism to store user credentials. An attacker who obtains the password hash through system compromise or privileged access could perform brute-force or dictionary attacks. Successful exploitation may result in disclosure of authentication &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}