# Remote Code Execution via Stack-based Buffer Overflow in ONVIF SOAP Parser in TP-Link Tapo C200 and C520WS

CVE record · `CVE-2025-8065`

- **Identifiers:** `CVE-2025-8065`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 8.7 High
- **Critical:** No
- **CNA:** TPLink
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-121](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/121.html)
- **Tags:** [Memory corruption](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/memory-corruption.md)
- **Technologies:** [TP-Link Systems Inc. Tapo C200 V3](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/tp-link-systems-inc-tapo-c200-v3.md) · [TP-Link Systems Inc. Tapo C520WS v2.6](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/tp-link-systems-inc-tapo-c520ws-v2-6.md)
- **Published:** 20 Dec 2025
- **Updated:** 3 Apr 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: TPLink) at 20 Dec 2025, 00:41 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

## Affected products, as the CNA wrote them

- Vendor: TP-Link Systems Inc.. Product: Tapo C200 V3.
  - affected: `before V3_1.4.5 Build 251104` (custom)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: TP-Link Systems Inc.. Product: Tapo C520WS v2.6.
  - affected: `before 1.2.4 Build 260326 Rel.24666n` (custom)
  - Other versions: unaffected

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

## Severity and exploitation

- 8.7 High, CVSS 4.0: `CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N`, from CNA (TPLink)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0053, the 45th percentile, on 9 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 20 Dec 2025. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [CVE List: CVE-2025-8065](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-8065)
- [NVD: CVE-2025-8065](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-8065)

### References from the CNA

- <https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/download/tapo-c200/v3/#Firmware-Release-Notes> (patch)
- <https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/faq/4849/> (vendor-advisory)
- <https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/download/tapo-c520ws/#Firmware-Release-Notes> (patch)
- <https://www.tp-link.com/en/support/download/tapo-c520ws/#Firmware-Release-Notes> (patch)
- <https://www.tp-link.com/en/support/download/tapo-c200/v3/#Firmware-Release-Notes> (patch)

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