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GHSA-Q8RG-VQGG-9PMQ

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2023-01-11 21:30 – Updated: 2025-11-04 21:30

Details

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.

Severity ?

7.5 (High)


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

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  "id": "GHSA-q8rg-vqgg-9pmq",
  "modified": "2025-11-04T21:30:28Z",
  "published": "2023-01-11T21:30:41Z",
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CVE-2022-4499 (GCVE-0-2022-4499)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-01-11 18:48 – Updated: 2025-11-04 19:14

Summary

Severity ?

7.5 (High)


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

CWE

CWE-676

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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