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CVE-2022-4498
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2023-01-11T21:15:10.213 · Last modified 2026-06-17T05:21:02.703

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.

Affected products

tp-link — archer_c5_firmware

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