CVE-2025-7851 is a high-severity vulnerability in TP-Link Omada gateways that may allow an attacker to obtain a root shell on the underlying operating system under restricted conditions. Available reporting characterizes the issue as a root access vulnerability affecting multiple Omada gateway models, but does not provide sufficient technical detail about the vulnerable component, function, or precise flaw class to attribute a specific CWE with confidence. The vulnerability has also been described as part of exploit chains with other Omada weaknesses, where successful compromise of controller or gateway workflows can be leveraged to reach root-level access on affected devices.
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What an attacker gets, and what they’ve been doing with it.
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No public exploit code observed for this vulnerability.
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Vendor-confirmed product mapping. Mallory continuously reconciles this list against your asset inventory.
17 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
A previously disclosed command injection vulnerability that, when chained with the newly disclosed Omada ZTP flaws, can enable remote root-level command execution on managed devices.
A pre-existing remote code execution vulnerability that can be chained with newly disclosed TP-Link Omada ZTP weaknesses to achieve broader compromise.
A previously disclosed TP-Link Omada vulnerability that permits root access under specific conditions and can be chained with the newly disclosed flaws.
A previously disclosed TP-Link-related flaw referenced as part of a possible complete attack chain with the newly reported Omada ZTP vulnerabilities.
Query your assets running an affected version, and investigate the blast radius.
Every observed campaign linking this CVE to a named adversary.
Malware families riding this exploit, with evidence and IOCs.
YARA, Sigma, Snort, and vendor rules, auto-deployed to your SIEM.
Cross-references every affected SKU, including bundled OEM variants.
Community discussion across Reddit, Mastodon, and other social sources.