CVE-2020-8994

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-8994
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-03-05 16:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-07-21 11:39:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered on XIAOMI AI speaker MDZ-25-DT 1.34.36, and 1.40.14. Attackers can get root shell by accessing the UART interface and then they can read Wi-Fi SSID or password, read the dialogue text files between users and XIAOMI AI speaker, use Text-To-Speech tools pretend XIAOMI speakers' voice achieve social engineering attacks, eavesdrop on users and record what XIAOMI AI speaker hears, delete the entire XIAOMI AI speaker system, modify system files, stop voice assistant service, start the XIAOMI AI speaker’s SSH service as a backdoor

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-287

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Hardware Mi Mdz-25-dt - All All All
Hardware Mi Mdz-25-dt - All All All
Operating System Mi Mdz-25-dt Firmware 1.34.36 All All All
Operating System Mi Mdz-25-dt Firmware 1.40.14 All All All
Operating System Mi Mdz-25-dt Firmware 1.34.36 All All All
Operating System Mi Mdz-25-dt Firmware 1.40.14 All All All

References

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CVE-2020-8994 POC social engineering attacks - YouTube MISC youtu.be Exploit, Third Party Advisory
CVE-POC/CVE-2020-8994.md at master · Jian-Xian/CVE-POC · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/soups2018posters-lau.pdf MISC www.usenix.org Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
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