CVE-2026-0918: TP-Link Tapo c220 Firmware

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Tapo C100 v5, C220 v1 and C520WS v2 cameras’ HTTP service does not safely handle POST requests containing an excessively large Content-Length header. The resulting failed memory allocation triggers a NULL pointer dereference, causing the main service process to crash. An unauthenticated attacker can repeatedly crash the service, causing temporary denial of service. The device restarts automatically, and repeated requests can keep it unavailable.

Affected products

• TP-Link Tapo c220 Firmware: before 1.4.2 (fixed in 1.4.2)
• TP-Link Tapo c520ws Firmware: before 1.2.3 (fixed in 1.2.3)

Published 2026-01-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.