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CVE-2025-3461

ON Semiconductor Quantenna Wi-Fi chipset — ON Semiconductor Quantenna Telnet Missing Authentication

EPSS 0.6%CVSS 9.8
critical.is priorityof 100
39
CVSS 9.8 (NVD)9.8 / 10 × 3029.4Not in CISA KEV+300.0EPSS percentile 46.2.462 × 209.2No public exploit+100.0SSVC exploitation: none+100.0
Description · from the CVE record

The Quantenna Wi-Fi chips ship with an unauthenticated telnet interface by default. This is an instance of CWE-306, "Missing Authentication for Critical Function," and is estimated as a CVSS 9.1 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N). This issue affects Quantenna Wi-Fi chipset through version 8.0.0.28 of the latest SDK, and appears to be unpatched at the time of this CVE record's first publishing, though the vendor has released a best practices guide for implementors of this chipset.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
Quantenna Wi-Fi chipset≤ 8.0.0.28–CNA

Scores by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
AHA (CNA)9.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total

References

writeuptakeonme.org/cves/cve-2025-3461advisorycommunity.onsemi.com/s/article/QCS-Quantenna-Wi-Fi-product-support-and-security-best-practices