Panasonic IR Control Hub up to 1.17 missing protection mechanism for alternate hardware interface

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A vulnerability was found in Panasonic IR Control Hub up to 1.17. It has been classified as critical. This impacts an unknown function. The manipulation leads to missing protection mechanism for alternate hardware interface. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-1073. It is possible to launch the attack on the physical device. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Panasonic IR Control Hub up to 1.17. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a missing protection mechanism for alternate hardware interface vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-1299. The lack of protections on alternate paths to access control-protected assets (such as unprotected shadow registers and other external facing unguarded interfaces) allows an attacker to bypass existing protections to the asset that are only performed against the primary path. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Panasonic IR Control Hub (IR Blaster) versions 1.17 and earlier may allow an attacker with physical access to load unauthorized firmware onto the device.

The weakness was shared by Sharvan Singh. It is possible to read the advisory at lsin.panasonic.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-1073 since 02/06/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 04/10/2025).

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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Vendor

• Panasonic

Name

• IR Control Hub

Version

• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8
• 1.9
• 1.10
• 1.11
• 1.12
• 1.13
• 1.14
• 1.15
• 1.16
• 1.17

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• commercial

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