CVE-2026-86552 A vulnerability that skips email ownership verification for account registration in ZTE SmartLife APP

What is CVE-2026-86552?

CVE-2026-86552 is a medium-severity vulnerability in ZTE SmartLife, published on 20 Sep 2026.

Official description

SmartLife app dynamically generates brand‑new SmartLife application authentication parameters at runtime. With the acquired SmartLife application authentication credentials, an attacker can directly complete registration using any arbitrary email address via the backend interface /account/person/signup.serv. Email ownership is not verified prior to registration.

Weakness: CWE-269

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-86552?

How do I fix CVE-2026-86552?

No fix has been published for CVE-2026-86552 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2026-86552 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-86552 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code: 1 proofs of concept on GitHub.

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-5vgr-9q5r-pvpj.