Espressif ESP-IDF up to 3.3.1 Secure Boot injection

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A vulnerability has been found in Espressif ESP-IDF up to 2.x/3.0.9/3.1.6/3.2.3/3.3.1 and classified as critical. This affects an unknown part of the component Secure Boot. Performing a manipulation results in injection. This vulnerability was named CVE-2019-15894. The attack may be carried out on the physical device. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Espressif ESP-IDF up to 2.x/3.0.9/3.1.6/3.2.3/3.3.1. This affects an unknown part of the component Secure Boot. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a injection vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-74. The product constructs all or part of a command, data structure, or record using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify how it is parsed or interpreted when it is sent to a downstream component. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

An issue was discovered in Espressif ESP-IDF 2.x, 3.0.x through 3.0.9, 3.1.x through 3.1.6, 3.2.x through 3.2.3, and 3.3.x through 3.3.1. An attacker who uses fault injection to physically disrupt the ESP32 CPU can bypass the Secure Boot digest verification at startup, and boot unverified code from flash. The fault injection attack does not disable the Flash Encryption feature, so if the ESP32 is configured with the recommended combination of Secure Boot and Flash Encryption, then the impact is minimized. If the ESP32 is configured without Flash Encryption then successful fault injection allows arbitrary code execution. To protect devices with Flash Encryption and Secure Boot enabled against this attack, a firmware change must be made to permanently enable Flash Encryption in the field if it is not already permanently enabled.

The weakness was presented 10/07/2019 (Website). The advisory is shared at espressif.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2019-15894 since 09/03/2019. The exploitability is told to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1055 for this issue.

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

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Vendor

• Espressif

Name

• ESP-IDF

Version

• 2.x
• 3.0.0
• 3.0.1
• 3.0.2
• 3.0.3
• 3.0.4
• 3.0.5
• 3.0.6
• 3.0.7
• 3.0.8
• 3.0.9
• 3.1.0
• 3.1.1
• 3.1.2
• 3.1.3
• 3.1.4
• 3.1.5
• 3.1.6
• 3.2.0
• 3.2.1
• 3.2.2
• 3.2.3
• 3.3.0
• 3.3.1

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