TP-Link Tapo C210 ActiveCells stack-based overflow

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A vulnerability was found in TP-Link Tapo C210. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown part of the component ActiveCells Handler. This manipulation causes stack-based overflow. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2023-41184. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in TP-Link Tapo C210 (unknown version). Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block of the component ActiveCells Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a stack-based overflow vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-121. A stack-based buffer overflow condition is a condition where the buffer being overwritten is allocated on the stack (i.e., is a local variable or, rarely, a parameter to a function). As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The weakness was disclosed 09/01/2023 as ZDI-23-1287. The advisory is shared at zerodayinitiative.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2023-41184 since 08/24/2023. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/13/2025).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• TP-Link

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• Tapo C210

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.tp-link.com/

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