Hiawatha up to 11.7 Tomahawk handle_admin improper authentication

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Hiawatha up to 11.7. This issue affects the function handle_admin of the component Tomahawk. This manipulation causes improper authentication. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2025-57784. The attack requires local access. There is no available exploit. Applying a patch is the recommended action to fix this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Hiawatha up to 11.7. Affected by this vulnerability is the function handle_admin of the component Tomahawk. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authentication vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-287. When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The advisory is shared at kb.cert.org. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-57784. The exploitation appears to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Improper authentication
CWE: CWE-287
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Status: Not defined

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Timelineinfo

09/09/2025 Advisory disclosed
09/09/2025 +0 days VulDB entry created
02/18/2026 +162 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: kb.cert.org
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2025-57784 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2025-57784
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-323173

Entryinfo

Created: 09/09/2025 09:45
Updated: 02/18/2026 15:38
Changes: 09/09/2025 09:45 (51), 01/28/2026 13:03 (1), 02/18/2026 15:38 (20)
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