Vulnerabilities > CVE-2022-4499 - Information Exposure Through Discrepancy vulnerability in Tp-Link Archer C5 Firmware and Tl-Wr710N Firmware

047910
CVSS 7.5 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
NONE
network
low complexity
tp-link
CWE-203

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.

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)