Advantech Wireless Sensing and Equipment A2.01 B00 JTAG injection

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A vulnerability was found in Advantech Wireless Sensing and Equipment A2.01 B00. It has been classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component JTAG. Performing a manipulation results in injection. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2025-48468. The attack may be carried out on the physical device. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Advantech Wireless Sensing and Equipment A2.01 B00. This affects an unknown code block of the component JTAG. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a injection vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-74. The product constructs all or part of a command, data structure, or record using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify how it is parsed or interpreted when it is sent to a downstream component. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability could allow an attacker that has physical access to interface with JTAG to inject or modify firmware.

The weakness was released by Marc Heuse. It is possible to read the advisory at csa.gov.sg. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-48468 since 05/22/2025. The exploitability is told to be difficult. Attacking locally is a requirement. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1055 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

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

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-18989). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Advantech

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• Wireless Sensing and Equipment

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• A2.01 B00

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.advantech.com/

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