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Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions Affecting meshtastic/firmware package, versions [,2.4.1)

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.04% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UNMANAGED-MESHTASTICFIRMWARE-7842134
  • published 28 Aug 2024
  • disclosed 27 Aug 2024
  • credit brloomis
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Introduced: 27 Aug 2024

CVE-2024-45038 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-755 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade meshtastic/firmware to version 2.4.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions through the MQTT packet handling process. An attacker can cause the device to crash by sending a malformed MQTT packet when downlink is enabled.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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