CVE-2020-5797

lowpriority · track · 24EPSS 0.007 · 51 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.66% (51st) EPSS

CVSS 3.6 · low

Is it mine?

2 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following in TP-Link Archer C9(US)_V1_180125 firmware allows an unauthenticated actor, with physical access and network access, to read sensitive files and write to a limited set of files after plugging a crafted USB drive into the router.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.1

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 3.6–6.1

v2.03.6lowAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 4.9

v3.16.1mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 0.9 · impact 5.2

v3.15.6mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-59USprimary

affected products (2)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a TP-Link Archer C9 A1≤ Archer C9(US)_V1_180125 firmwareenisa_euvdEU
tp-link archer c9 firmware= 180125nvdUScpe:2.3:o:tp-link:archer_c9_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2020-11-21modified 2026-06-17

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references (5)

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