CVE-2025-55297

Aug. 21, 2025, 3:15 p.m.

5.2
Medium

Description

ESF-IDF is the Espressif Internet of Things (IOT) Development Framework. The BluFi example bundled in ESP-IDF was vulnerable to memory overflows in two areas: Wi-Fi credential handling and Diffie–Hellman key exchange. This vulnerability is fixed in 5.4.1, 5.3.3, 5.1.6, and 5.0.9.

Product(s) Impacted

Vendor Product Versions
Espressif
  • Esp-idf
  • <5.4.1, <5.3.3, <5.1.6, <5.0.9

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-120
Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
The product copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer, leading to a buffer overflow.

*CPE(s)

Affected systems and software identified for this CVE.

Type Vendor Product Version Update Edition Language Software Edition Target Software Target Hardware Other Information
a espressif esp-idf <5.4.1 / / / / / / /
a espressif esp-idf <5.3.3 / / / / / / /
a espressif esp-idf <5.1.6 / / / / / / /
a espressif esp-idf <5.0.9 / / / / / / /

References

https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/commit/12b7a9e6d78012ab9184b7ccdb5524364bf7e345
https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/commit/3fc6c93936077cb1659e1f0e0268e62cf6423e9d
https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/commit/5f93ec3b11b6115475c34de57093b3672d594e8f
https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/commit/9cb7206d4ae8fd8f4296cd57d6c78a1656f42efa
https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/commit/abc18e93eb3500dbec74c3e589671ef82c8b3919
https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/commit/b1657d9dd4d0e48ed25e02cb8fe8413f479a2a84
https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/commit/bf50c0c197af30990026c8f8286298d2aa5a3c99
https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/commit/cb6929a2e6f2ff130b742332dc15eb23006c7cc9
https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/commit/cc00e9f2fc4f7e8fbaff27851b4a8b45fa483501
https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/commit/e65cf7ea2a2be52219ec9d4efc44aed5e490e91c
https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/commit/f40aa9c587a8e570dfde2e6330382dcd170d5a5d
https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/commit/f77da0d5b5382635c99e6708551b73802ad1213d
https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/security/advisories/GHSA-9w88-r2vm-qfc4

Tags

security-advisories@github.com
CWE-120
2025-08-21
CVE-2025-55297

CVSS Score

5.2 / 10

CVSS Data - 4.0

  • Attack Vector: ADJACENT
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Attack Requirements: PRESENT
  • Privileges Required: NONE
  • User Interaction: NONE
  • Scope:
  • Confidentiality Impact: HIGH
  • Integrity Impact: HIGH
  • Availability Impact: HIGH
  • Exploit Maturity: UNREPORTED

    • CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

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Timeline

Published: Aug. 21, 2025, 3:15 p.m.
Last Modified: Aug. 21, 2025, 3:15 p.m.

Status : Received

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

security-advisories@github.com

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