Vulnerability · Published Mar 5, 2020 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-8994

Medium 6.8

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 47% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)6.8Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.6%top 53.3% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

An 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

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/soups2018posters-lau.pdf x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/Jian-Xian/CVE-POC/blob/master/CVE-2020-8994.md x_refsource_MISC
https://youtu.be/yCadG38yZW8 x_refsource_MISC