CVE-2023-41184

TP-Link Tapo C210 ActiveCells Stack-based Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows network-adjacent attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of TP-Link Tapo C210 IP cameras. Although authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability, the existing authentication mechanism can be bypassed. The specific flaw exists within the handling of the ActiveCells parameter of the CreateRules and ModifyRules APIs. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of the length of user-supplied data prior to copying it to a fixed-length stack-based buffer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of root. . Was ZDI-CAN-20589.

CVSS v3 8.0 HIGH

8.0^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.1 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector ADJACENT_NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-23-1287/	Third Party Advisory
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-23-1287/	Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

AND

cpe:2.3:o:tp-link:tapo_c210_firmware:1.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:h:tp-link:tapo_c210:v2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

12 Aug 2025, 19:55

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time		Tp-link tapo C210 Firmware Tp-link Tp-link tapo C210
CPE		cpe:2.3:h:tp-link:tapo_c210:v2:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:tp-link:tapo_c210_firmware:1.3.0:::::::*
References	~~() https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-23-1287/ -~~	() https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-23-1287/ - Third Party Advisory
CWE		CWE-787
CVSS	v2 : ~~unknown~~ v3 : ~~6.8~~	v2 : unknown v3 : 8.0

Information

Published : 2024-05-03 03:15

Updated : 2025-08-12 19:55

NVD link : CVE-2023-41184

Mitre link : CVE-2023-41184

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2023-41184

JSON object : View

Products Affected

tp-link

tapo_c210
tapo_c210_firmware

CWE

CWE-121

Stack-based Buffer Overflow

CWE-787

Out-of-bounds Write

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