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FKIE_CVE-2025-57784

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-01-26 18:16 - Updated: 2026-01-27 14:59

Severity ?

4.0 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Summary

Tomahawk auth timing attack due to usage of `strcmp` has been identified in Hiawatha webserver version 11.7 which allows a local attacker to access the management client.

References

	URL	Tags
	cret@cert.org	https://gitlab.com/hsleisink/hiawatha/-/blame/master/src/tomahawk.c?ref_type=heads#L429

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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CVE-2025-57784 (GCVE-0-2025-57784)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-26 17:47 – Updated: 2026-01-26 20:52

Title

Tomahawk authentication timing attack due to usage of 'strcmp'

Summary

Tomahawk auth timing attack due to usage of `strcmp` has been identified in Hiawatha webserver version 11.7 which allows a local attacker to access the management client.

Severity ?

4 (Medium)


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

CWE

CWE-208 Observable Timing Discrepancy

Assigner

certcc

References

URL

Tags

https://gitlab.com/hsleisink/hiawatha/-/blame/mas…

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Hiawatha	Hiawatha Web server	Affected: 11.7 , ≤ 8.5 (custom)

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FKIE_CVE-2025-57784

CVE-2025-57784 (GCVE-0-2025-57784)

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