FKIE_CVE-2022-4499

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-01-11 19:15 - Updated: 2025-11-04 20:16
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Summary
TP-Link routers, Archer C5 and WR710N-V1, using the latest software, the strcmp function used for checking credentials in httpd, is susceptible to a side-channel attack. By measuring the response time of the httpd process, an attacker could guess each byte of the username and password.
References
cret@cert.orghttps://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/572615Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/572615Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://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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