# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-0918"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-01-27T17:52:04.348Z"
updatedAt: "2026-04-29T00:05:42.816Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:44.935Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-0918"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-0918.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-0918"
title: "Null Pointer Dereference in Tapo SmartCam HTTP Service on TP-Link Tapo C220 & C520WS"
summary: "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: [{"versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"1.4.2 Build 251112"}],"vendor":"TP-Link Systems Inc.","product":"Tapo C220 v1","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"1.2.3 Build 251114"}],"vendor":"TP-Link Systems Inc.","product":"Tapo C520WS v2","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"1.4.3 Build 251128"}],"vendor":"TP-Link Systems Inc.","product":"Tapo C100 v5","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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