What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities
CVE-2026-34120: Heap-based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability Leading to Denial-of-Service in TP-Link Tapo C520WS
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2026-04-02 · updated 2026-07-24
- Weakness: CWE-122
Description
A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability was identified in TP-Link Tapo C520WS v2.6 within the asynchronous parsing of local video stream content due to insufficient alignment and validation of buffer boundaries when processing streaming inputs.An attacker on the same network segment could trigger heap memory corruption conditions by sending crafted payloads that cause write operations beyond allocated buffer boundaries. Successful exploitation causes a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition, causing the device’s process to crash or become unresponsive.
Affected products
- TP-Link Systems Inc. Tapo C520WS v2: before 1.2.4 — fixed in 1.2.4
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: TP-Link Systems Inc. Tapo C520WS v2 1.2.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
- https://www.tp-link.com/en/support/download/tapo-c520ws/#Firmware-Release-Notes
- https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/download/tapo-c520ws/#Firmware-Release-Notes
- https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/faq/5047/
Get alerted when CVE-2026-34120 or the next vulnerability affects your stack