CVE-2022-4498 (GCVE-0-2022-4498)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-01-11 20:38
Modified
2025-11-04 19:14
Severity ?
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.
Impacted products
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