# CVE-2020-8994: An issue was discovered on XIAOMI AI speaker MDZ-25-DT 1.34.36, and 1.40.14.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2020-03-05 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered on XIAOMI AI speaker MDZ-25-DT 1.34.36, and 1.40.14. Attackers can get root shell by accessing the UART interface and then they can read Wi-Fi SSID or password, read the dialogue text files between users and XIAOMI AI speaker, use Text-To-Speech tools pretend XIAOMI speakers' voice achieve social engineering attacks, eavesdrop on users and record what XIAOMI AI speaker hears, delete the entire XIAOMI AI speaker system, modify system files, stop voice assistant service, start the XIAOMI AI speaker’s SSH service as a backdoor

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/soups2018posters-lau.pdf
- https://github.com/Jian-Xian/CVE-POC/blob/master/CVE-2020-8994.md
- https://youtu.be/yCadG38yZW8

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