CVE-2025-20681 is a critical out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the WLAN AP driver affecting MediaTek and OpenWrt products. With a CVSS score of 9.8, it allows for local escalation of privilege without user interaction, requiring only user execution privileges. While the vulnerability is severe, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 5.1.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mediatek:software_development_kit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
19.07.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:openwrt:openwrt:19.07.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
21.02.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:openwrt:openwrt:21.02.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.