CVE-2025-55297 – Espressif ESP-IDF BluFi Wi-Fi Credential Handling and Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange Memory Overflow Vulnerability

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  • New CVE Received
    by [email protected]

    Aug. 21, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added 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.
    Added CVSS V4.0 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
    Added CWE CWE-120
    Added CWE CWE-131
    Added Reference https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/commit/12b7a9e6d78012ab9184b7ccdb5524364bf7e345
    Added Reference https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/commit/3fc6c93936077cb1659e1f0e0268e62cf6423e9d
    Added Reference https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/commit/5f93ec3b11b6115475c34de57093b3672d594e8f
    Added Reference https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/commit/9cb7206d4ae8fd8f4296cd57d6c78a1656f42efa
    Added Reference https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/commit/abc18e93eb3500dbec74c3e589671ef82c8b3919
    Added Reference https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/commit/b1657d9dd4d0e48ed25e02cb8fe8413f479a2a84
    Added Reference https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/commit/bf50c0c197af30990026c8f8286298d2aa5a3c99
    Added Reference https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/commit/cb6929a2e6f2ff130b742332dc15eb23006c7cc9
    Added Reference https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/commit/cc00e9f2fc4f7e8fbaff27851b4a8b45fa483501
    Added Reference https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/commit/e65cf7ea2a2be52219ec9d4efc44aed5e490e91c
    Added Reference https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/commit/f40aa9c587a8e570dfde2e6330382dcd170d5a5d
    Added Reference https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/commit/f77da0d5b5382635c99e6708551b73802ad1213d
    Added Reference https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/security/advisories/GHSA-9w88-r2vm-qfc4
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