CVE-2025-3460 | ON Semiconductor Quantenna set_tx_pow Argument Injection

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The Quantenna Wi-Fi chipset ships with a local control script, set_tx_pow, that is vulnerable to command injection. This is an instance of CWE-88, "Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')," and is estimated as a CVSS 7.7 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/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.

Published: 2025-06-08 Last update: 2026-06-17 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2025-3460 is rated High Exploit Risk (72.9/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.98%). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2025-3460

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-3460

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-05-22 0.86% 0.98% +0.12%
2 2026-05-08 1.09% 0.86% -0.23%
3 2026-04-04 1.09%

Full EPSS history (6 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-3460

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.7 3.1 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:L)
They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:H)
Serious risk that confidential data gets exposed in a big way.
Integrity (I:H)
They could widely tamper with or forge data—trust in the data is badly hurt.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
2.5 5.2 [email protected]
7.8 3.1 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:L)
They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:L)
A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:H)
Serious risk that confidential data gets exposed in a big way.
Integrity (I:H)
They could widely tamper with or forge data—trust in the data is badly hurt.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
1.8 5.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-3460

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-3460

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
onsemi qcs-ax3-s5_firmware cpe:2.3:o:onsemi:qcs-ax3-s5_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
onsemi qcs-ax2-a12_firmware cpe:2.3:o:onsemi:qcs-ax2-a12_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
onsemi qcs-ax2-t12_firmware cpe:2.3:o:onsemi:qcs-ax2-t12_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
onsemi qcs-ax2-t8_firmware cpe:2.3:o:onsemi:qcs-ax2-t8_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
onsemi qd840_firmware cpe:2.3:o:onsemi:qd840_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
onsemi qhs710_firmware cpe:2.3:o:onsemi:qhs710_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
onsemi qsr10ga_firmware cpe:2.3:o:onsemi:qsr10ga_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
onsemi qsr10gu_firmware cpe:2.3:o:onsemi:qsr10gu_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
onsemi qv840_firmware cpe:2.3:o:onsemi:qv840_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
onsemi qv840c_firmware cpe:2.3:o:onsemi:qv840c_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
onsemi qv860_firmware cpe:2.3:o:onsemi:qv860_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
onsemi qv940_firmware cpe:2.3:o:onsemi:qv940_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
onsemi qv942c_firmware cpe:2.3:o:onsemi:qv942c_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
onsemi qv952c_firmware cpe:2.3:o:onsemi:qv952c_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
onsemi qcs-ax2-s5_firmware cpe:2.3:o:onsemi:qcs-ax2-s5_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
onsemi qcs-ax3-a12_firmware cpe:2.3:o:onsemi:qcs-ax3-a12_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
onsemi qcs-ax3-t12_firmware cpe:2.3:o:onsemi:qcs-ax3-t12_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
onsemi qcs-ax3-t8_firmware cpe:2.3:o:onsemi:qcs-ax3-t8_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2025-3460

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