Meshtastic Firmware up to 2.5.5 special element

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A vulnerability was found in Meshtastic Firmware up to 2.5.5 and classified as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing. The manipulation results in special element. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2024-51500. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Meshtastic Firmware up to 2.5.5. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a special element vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-138. The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could be interpreted as control elements or syntactic markers when they are sent to a downstream component. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:

Meshtastic firmware is a device firmware for the Meshtastic project. The Meshtastic firmware does not check for packets claiming to be from the special broadcast address (0xFFFFFFFF) which could result in unexpected behavior and potential for DDoS attacks on the network. A malicious actor could craft a packet to be from that address which would result in an amplification of this one message into every node on the network sending multiple messages. Such an attack could result in degraded network performance for all users as the available bandwidth is consumed. This issue has been addressed in release version 2.5.6. All users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-51500 since 10/28/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

Upgrading to version 2.5.6 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Firmware Software

Vendor

• Meshtastic

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• Firmware

Version

• 2.5.0
• 2.5.1
• 2.5.2
• 2.5.3
• 2.5.4
• 2.5.5

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• Product: https://github.com/meshtastic/firmware/

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