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CVE-2025-62172: home-assistant core · Basic XSS

Affects home-assistant coreSource CVE Database V5

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Public exploit available · CVSS 8.5 High · fixed in 2025.10.2 : patch home-assistant core as a priority.

Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 14:05 UTC

CVSS 4.0 base score
8.5High
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
EPSS
0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 36% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
Patch
Available – fixed in 2025.10.2
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:P

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 14 Oct 2025

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponised: evidence found.

    CVSS exploit maturity: proof of concept public

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), CVSS vector, the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 26 Oct 2026.

What to do

AI-suggested

  1. Immediately upgrade all Home Assistant core installations to version 2025.10.2 or later, where the vulnerability is patched.
  2. Review and sanitize all existing energy entity names to remove any potentially malicious HTML or script content, especially those imported from external energy providers.
  3. Restrict energy dashboard access to trusted authenticated users only and enforce strong authentication mechanisms, such as multi-factor authentication, to reduce the risk of malicious user injection.
  4. Monitor logs and user activity for unusual changes to entity names or unexpected dashboard interactions that could indicate exploitation attempts.
  5. If possible, disable or limit integration with third-party energy providers until their data inputs can be verified as safe.
  6. Educate users about the risks of interacting with untrusted content within the dashboard, particularly hovering over graph tooltips.
  7. Implement Content Security Policy (CSP) headers in the Home Assistant web interface to restrict script execution sources, mitigating the impact of any injected scripts.
  8. Regularly audit and update all Home Assistant components and dependencies to minimize exposure to similar vulnerabilities.

Description

Home Assistant is open source home automation software that puts local control and privacy first. In versions 2025.1.0 through 2025.10.1, the energy dashboard is vulnerable to stored cross-site scripting. An authenticated user can inject malicious JavaScript code into an energy entity's name field, which is then executed when any user hovers over data points in the energy dashboard graph tooltips. The vulnerability exists because entity names containing HTML are not properly sanitized before being rendered in graph tooltips. This could allow an attacker with authentication to execute arbitrary JavaScript in the context of other users' sessions. Additionally, if an energy provider (such as Tibber) supplies a malicious default name for an entity, the vulnerability can be exploited without direct user action when the default name is used. This issue has been patched in version 2025.10.2. No known workarounds exist.

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