CVE-2025-10991 (GCVE-0-2025-10991)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-30 00:08 – Updated: 2025-09-30 13:40
VLAI
Title
Root Access via UART
Summary
The attacker may obtain root access by connecting to the UART port and this vulnerability requires the attacker to have the physical access to the device. This issue affects Tapo D230S1 V1.20: before 1.2.2 Build 20250907.
Severity
7 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-09-30 13:40 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-306 - Missing Authentication for Critical Function
Assigner
TPLink CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard B 87/100 over 101 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
TP-Link Systems Inc. Tapo D230S1 V1.20 Affected: 0 , < 1.2.2 Build 20250907 (custom)
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Credits
Simon Söderberg, Andreas Lindström, and Johan Klingström of JAS Project
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