Vulnerabilities > CVE-2022-4498 - Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in Tp-Link Archer C5 Firmware and Tl-Wr710N Firmware

047910
CVSS 9.8 - CRITICAL
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
tp-link
CWE-787
critical

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.

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)