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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in ESP-IDF 5.1. Affected is an unknown function of the component externalId. The manipulation leads to buffer overflow. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-33453. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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A vulnerability was found in ESP-IDF 5.1. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown part of the component externalId. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a buffer overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-120. The product copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer, leading to a buffer overflow. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in esp-idf v.5.1 allows a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information via the externalId component.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-33453 since 04/23/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 10/19/2024).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• ESP-IDF

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• 5.1

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