Espressif · Esp-Idf · CVE-2025-52471
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions:
ESF-IDF versions 5.1.6, 5.2.5, 5.3.3, and 5.4.1
Description:
An integer underflow vulnerability has been identified in the ESP-NOW protocol implementation within the ESP Wi-Fi component of the ESP-IDF framework. This issue stems from insufficient validation of user-supplied data length in the packet receive function. Under certain conditions, this may lead to out-of-bounds memory access and may allow arbitrary memory write operations. On systems without a memory protection scheme, this behavior could potentially be used to achieve remote code execution (RCE) on the target device.
Recommendations:
For ESP-IDF v5.3 and earlier, a workaround can be applied by validating that the `data len` parameter received in the RX callback (registered via `esp now register recv cb()`) is a positive value before further processing.
For ESP-IDF v5.4 and later, users are advised to upgrade to a patched version of ESP-IDF to take advantage of the built-in mitigation.