CVE-2026-9770Hardcoded Cryptographic Key Information Disclosure Vulnerability on TP-Link Kasa EC70 and EC71
- 8.6HighCVSS base score
- 0.31%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 76% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Kasa EC71 v4 and EC70 v4 firmware contains a static cryptographic private key stored in a read-only filesystem that is shared across devices. An attacker with access to the firmware image can extract the embedded key. Successful exploitation may allow an unauthenticated attacker on the same network to use this key in the web management service, compromising the confidentiality of encrypted communications. This may enable passive decryption of traffic or active man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks
Timeline
ID reserved
By TPLink
- 49 days later
· 49 days later
Published
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| TPLinkCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | High8.6 | CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 4.0 | High8.6 | CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.31% · top 76% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.6.
Affected products
TP-Link Systems Inc. · Kasa EC71 v4
- affected < 2.4.0 Build 20260520 rel.4191
TP-Link Systems Inc. · Kasa EC70 v4
- affected < 2.4.0 Build 20260520 rel.4191
References
References5
- https://www.tp-link.com/en/support/download/ec71/v4/#Firmware-Release-Notes (opens in a new tab)patch
- https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/download/ec71/v4/#Firmware-Release-Notes (opens in a new tab)patch
- https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/download/ec70/v4/#Firmware-Release-Notes (opens in a new tab)patch
- https://www.tp-link.com/en/support/download/ec70/v4/#Firmware-Release-Notes (opens in a new tab)patch
- https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/faq/5192/ (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisory
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-44576 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2026-9770)Record last updated .