CVE-2018-3898: Yitechnology Yi Home Camera Firmware

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An exploitable code execution vulnerability exists in the QR code scanning functionality of Yi Home Camera 27US 1.8.7.0D. A specially crafted QR Code can cause a buffer overflow, resulting in code execution. The trans_info call can overwrite a buffer of size 0x104, which is more than enough to overflow the return address from the ssid_dst field.

Affected products

• Yitechnology Yi Home Camera Firmware: version 1.8.7.0d only

Published 2018-11-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.