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FKIE_CVE-2022-4498

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-01-11 21:15 - Updated: 2025-11-04 20:16

Severity ?

9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

In TP-Link routers, Archer C5 and WR710N-V1, running the latest available code, when receiving HTTP Basic Authentication the httpd service can be sent a crafted packet that causes a heap overflow. This can result in either a DoS (by crashing the httpd process) or an arbitrary code execution.

References

URL	Tags
cret@cert.org	https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/572615	Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/572615	Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/572615

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
tp-link	archer_c5_firmware	2_160201_us
tp-link	archer_c5	2.0
tp-link	tl-wr710n_firmware	1_151022_us
tp-link	tl-wr710n	1.0

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CVE-2022-4498 (GCVE-0-2022-4498)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-01-11 20:38 – Updated: 2025-11-04 19:14

Summary

Severity ?

9.8 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

Assigner

certcc

References

URL

Tags

https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/572615

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

TP-Link

WR710N

Affected: V1-151022

TP-Link

Archer C5

Affected: V2_160221_US

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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FKIE_CVE-2022-4498

CVE-2022-4498 (GCVE-0-2022-4498)

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