Inadequate Encryption Strength Affecting esptool package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.1% (42nd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-ESPTOOL-6054451
  • published 10 Nov 2023
  • disclosed 9 Nov 2023
  • credit gxx777

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for esptool.

Overview

esptool is an A serial utility to communicate & flash code to Espressif chips.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Inadequate Encryption Strength in the AES ECB used for initialization. An attacker can view sensitive information by exploiting this weakness.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
5.3 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

7.5 high