Tether let me in to my neighbors AX73 - Massive security flaw

Tether let me in to my neighbors AX73 - Massive security flaw

Tether let me in to my neighbors AX73 - Massive security flaw
Tether let me in to my neighbors AX73 - Massive security flaw
3 weeks ago - last edited 3 weeks ago
Model: Archer AX73  
Hardware Version: V2
Firmware Version: 1.1.0

My parents live in another state and they have a AX73. I am set up as administrator and using Tether app I get into their router.

 

Last night I logged into it and was looking around at different settings and then noticed the client list. It became very obvious to me. I was in someone else's AX73.

 

I am not malicious, and would never do anything to harm the person's router I was in, but I did do some poking around to try to determine why this happened. They have a router password different than my parents. Their 2.4 and 5GHZ SSID is different than my parents and so is the Wi-Fi password.

 

I just checked now before creating this post and I can still get in. Tether shows me as an administrator.. I will take my name off, but I am visiting my parents this weekend and I want to wait to see what happens when I am locally connected to their router.

 

I am unable to access it using their Gateway address which is a 10.0 and mine is a 192.168

 

EDIT - above I said they had a different router password than my parents. It's actually not asking me for a router password. I just click on the device, which is supposed to be my parents and I went straight into this other 

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Re:Tether let me in to my neighbors AX73 - Massive security flaw
3 weeks ago

  @DepecheFan 

 

I agree that is a massive security issue. That is one of the reasons I do not like the trend of routers being controlled using internet based software. There needs to be more security such as at least a password required to gain access every time.

 

Please google "where to report security issues to tp link" and report this to them.

 

Also keep us posted with what you find out. 

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