CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-15894
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-10-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-755
Description
An issue was discovered in Espressif ESP-IDF 2.x, 3.0.x through 3.0.9, 3.1.x through 3.1.6, 3.2.x through 3.2.3, and 3.3.x through 3.3.1. An attacker who uses fault injection to physically disrupt the ESP32 CPU can bypass the Secure Boot digest verification at startup, and boot unverified code from flash. The fault injection attack does not disable the Flash Encryption feature, so if the ESP32 is configured with the recommended combination of Secure Boot and Flash Encryption, then the impact is minimized. If the ESP32 is configured without Flash Encryption then successful fault injection allows arbitrary code execution. To protect devices with Flash Encryption and Secure Boot enabled against this attack, a firmware change must be made to permanently enable Flash Encryption in the field if it is not already permanently enabled.
Affected configurations
• espressif esp-idf (>= 3.0 < 3.0.9)
• espressif esp-idf (> 3.1 < 3.1.6)
• espressif esp-idf (> 3.2 < 3.2.3)
• espressif esp-idf (>= 3.3 < 3.3.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-755 Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions weakness
Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)
- CWE-1332 Improper Handling of Faults that Lead to Instruction Skips weakness
References
- https://www.espressif.com/en/news/Espressif_Security_Advisory_Concerning_Fault_Injection_and_Secure_Boot Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.espressif.com/en/news/Espressif_Security_Advisory_Concerning_Fault_Injection_and_Secure_Boot Mitigation, Vendor Advisory