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CVE-2020-13595

Status: ModifiedMedium (6.5)—

The Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) controller implementation in Espressif ESP-IDF 4.0 through 4.2 (for ESP32 devices) returns the wrong number of completed BLE packets and triggers a reachable assertion on the host stack when receiving a packet with an MIC failure. An attacker within radio range can silently trigger the assertion (which disables the target's BLE stack) by sending a crafted sequence of BLE packets.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Espressif — Esp-idf

CWEs

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