Home Assistant is open source home automation software focused on local control and privacy. Prior to 2026.5.3, the Companion app treats tag links (NFC or QR) delivered through an OS-level routing mechanism as if they were physically scanned, without validating the calling app or prompting the user. As a result, any untrusted app on the device can forward an arbitrary tag to Home Assistant, causing it to execute the associated automation as though a legitimate user had scanned an authorized tag. This allows silent, unattended automation execution by untrusted local callers. This issue is fixed in version 2026.8.1.
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| Description | Home Assistant is open source home automation software focused on local control and privacy. Prior to 2026.5.3, the Companion app treats tag links (NFC or QR) delivered through an OS-level routing mechanism as if they were physically scanned, without validating the calling app or prompting the user. As a result, any untrusted app on the device can forward an arbitrary tag to Home Assistant, causing it to execute the associated automation as though a legitimate user had scanned an authorized tag. This allows silent, unattended automation execution by untrusted local callers. This issue is fixed in version 2026.8.1. | |
| Title | Home Assistant: Unconfirmed NFC/QR tag scans allow silent automation execution by untrusted callers | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-862 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-08-13T17:54:36.439Z
Reserved: 2026-07-23T23:25:28.896Z
Link: CVE-2026-66060
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-08-07T21:17:29.520
Modified: 2026-08-13T18:18:07.213
Link: CVE-2026-66060
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-08-07T21:30:18Z
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