CVE-2026-25507 (GCVE-0-2026-25507)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-04 17:58 – Updated: 2026-02-04 19:24
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
ESF-IDF Has Use-after-free Vulnerability in BLE Provisioning
Summary
ESF-IDF is the Espressif Internet of Things (IOT) Development Framework. In versions 5.5.2, 5.4.3, 5.3.4, 5.2.6, and 5.1.6, a use-after-free vulnerability was reported in the BLE provisioning transport (protocomm_ble) layer. The issue can be triggered by a remote BLE client while the device is in provisioning mode. The vulnerability occurred when provisioning was stopped with keep_ble_on = true. In this configuration, internal protocomm_ble state and GATT metadata were freed while the BLE stack and GATT services remained active. Subsequent BLE read or write callbacks dereferenced freed memory, allowing a connected or newly connected client to trigger invalid memory acces. This issue has been patched in versions 5.5.3, 5.4.4, 5.3.5, 5.2.7, and 5.1.7.
Severity
6.3 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-02-04 19:22 UTC
CWE
- CWE-416 - Use After Free
Assigner
References
8 references
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|---|---|
| https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/security/adv… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/commit/0540c… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/commit/1ff26… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/commit/47552… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/commit/4c3fd… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/commit/894c2… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/commit/cde7b… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/commit/dba9a… | x_refsource_MISC |
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"advisory": "GHSA-h7r3-gmg9-xjmg",
"discovery": "UNKNOWN"
},
"title": "ESF-IDF Has Use-after-free Vulnerability in BLE Provisioning"
}
},
"cveMetadata": {
"assignerOrgId": "a0819718-46f1-4df5-94e2-005712e83aaa",
"assignerShortName": "GitHub_M",
"cveId": "CVE-2026-25507",
"datePublished": "2026-02-04T17:58:18.605Z",
"dateReserved": "2026-02-02T18:21:42.486Z",
"dateUpdated": "2026-02-04T19:24:17.464Z",
"state": "PUBLISHED"
},
"dataType": "CVE_RECORD",
"dataVersion": "5.2"
}
}
}
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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