ON Semiconductor Quantenna set_tx_pow Argument Injection

Description

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.0% · top 37% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.7.

Weakness

• CWE-88 Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection') (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-88 and its CVEs

Affected products

• ON Semiconductor · Quantenna Wi-Fi chipset

  • affected ≤ 8.0.0.28

References (2)

• https://takeonme.org/cves/cve-2025-3460 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisory
• https://community.onsemi.com/s/article/QCS-Quantenna-Wi-Fi-product-support-and-security-best-practices (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisory

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2025-3460](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2025-3460.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2025-3460)

Record last updated 9 Jun 2025, 18:33 UTC.