CVE-2025-15631: TP-Link Omada cryptographic weakness in credential hashing

CVE-2025-15631 · Severity: medium · CVSS 5.9 · Published 2026-08-03

TP-Link Omada networking devices use a weak hashing algorithm to protect administrator and site credentials stored in the device or management environment. An attacker who gains access to the stored credential hashes (through device compromise, database theft, or backup extraction) can crack them offline to recover plaintext credentials, leading to unauthorized administrative access and compromise of the entire network.

Quick answers

Is CVE-2025-15631 exploited in the wild?
No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2025-15631 being exploited in the wild.
How severe is CVE-2025-15631?
Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 5.9, published 3 August 2026.
Which products and versions are affected?
TP-Link Omada <UNKNOWN>; TP-Link Deco <UNKNOWN>.
Is there a fix for CVE-2025-15631?
No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
How is CVE-2025-15631 attacked?
It is attacked with local access, in a network appliance.
Am I affected by CVE-2025-15631?
Check whether anything you run is named in the advisory. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.

Technical details

This vulnerability stems from the use of a legacy or insufficient cryptographic hashing algorithm for protecting site credentials in Omada devices and their management systems. Rather than using modern password hashing schemes (e.g., bcrypt, scrypt, Argon2), the implementation allows attackers to brute-force or rainbow-table attack stored credential hashes with modest computational effort. The attack requires prior access to the credential storage—either through device filesystem access, database exfiltration, or backup file theft—but does not require authentication to the device or network access. Once credentials are recovered, an attacker gains full administrative control of affected Omada infrastructure.

Affected products

  • TP-Link Omada <UNKNOWN>
  • TP-Link Deco <UNKNOWN>

Timeline

  • 2026-08-03: disclosed

References

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