FKIE_CVE-2018-18558

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2019-05-13 13:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:47
Severity
6.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
An issue was discovered in Espressif ESP-IDF 2.x and 3.x before 3.0.6 and 3.1.x before 3.1.1. Insufficient validation of input data in the 2nd stage bootloader allows a physically proximate attacker to bypass secure boot checks and execute arbitrary code, by crafting an application binary that overwrites a bootloader code segment in process_segment in components/bootloader_support/src/esp_image_format.c. The attack is effective when the flash encryption feature is not enabled, or if the attacker finds a different vulnerability that allows them to write this binary to flash memory.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/releasesRelease Notes, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.espressif.com/en/news/Espressif_Product_Security_Advisory_Concerning_Secure_Boot_%28CVE-2018-18558%29
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/releasesRelease Notes, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.espressif.com/en/news/Espressif_Product_Security_Advisory_Concerning_Secure_Boot_%28CVE-2018-18558%29
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
espressif esp-idf *
espressif esp-idf *
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