ESF-IDF BluFi Example Memory Overflow Vulnerability_CVE-2025-55297

5.2 / 10

MEDIUM

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

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.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-55297

Source GitHub_M

Published Aug 21, 2025 at 15:05

Affected Product

Vendor espressif

Product esp-idf

Version < 5.0.9

Affected Versions espressif esp-idf < 5.0.9
espressif esp-idf >= 5.1-beta1, < 5.1.6
espressif esp-idf >= 5.2-beta1, < 5.3.3
espressif esp-idf >= 5.4-beta1, < 5.4.1

CWE Classification

CWE-120 CWE-131

References

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