CVE-2025-57784

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

26/01/2026

Last modified:

26/01/2026

Description

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.00 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): Low
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): None

Base Score 3.x

4.00

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

https://gitlab.com/hsleisink/hiawatha/-/blame/master/src/tomahawk.c?ref_type=heads#L429