Improper Input Validation Affecting espressif/esp-idf package, versions [2.0,3.0.6)[3.1,3.1.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (37th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-ESPRESSIFESPIDF-2364346
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed13 May 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 May 2019

CVE-2018-18558  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade espressif/esp-idf to version 3.0.6, 3.1.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation. An issue was discovered in Espressif ESP-IDF 2.x and 3.x before 3.0.6 and 3.1.x before 3.1.1. Insufficient validation of input data in the 2nd stage bootloader allows a physically proximate attacker to bypass secure boot checks and execute arbitrary code, by crafting an application binary that overwrites a bootloader code segment in process_segment in components/bootloader_support/src/esp_image_format.c. The attack is effective when the flash encryption feature is not enabled, or if the attacker finds a different vulnerability that allows them to write this binary to flash memory.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1