CVE-2025-3461

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 9.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-306

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
ON Semiconductor	Quantenna Wi-Fi chipset	<= 8.0.0.28

References

https://community.onsemi.com/s/article/QCS-Quantenna-Wi-Fi-product-support-and-security-best-practicesRelease Notes
https://takeonme.org/cves/cve-2025-3461/Exploit, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Jun 8, 2025
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Analyzed

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