CVE-2019-15894
Espressif ESP-IDF Unverified Code Booting due to Fault Injection
Description
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.
INFO
Published Date :
Oct. 7, 2019, 4:15 p.m.
Last Modified :
Aug. 24, 2020, 5:37 p.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
No
Impact Score :
5.9
Exploitability Score :
0.9
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth
information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to
CVE-2019-15894.
| URL | Resource |
|---|---|
| https://www.espressif.com/en/news/Espressif_Security_Advisory_Concerning_Fault_Injection_and_Secure_Boot | Mitigation Vendor Advisory |
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CVE-2019-15894 vulnerability over time.
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CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value -
CWE Remap by [email protected]
Aug. 24, 2020
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed CWE CWE-74 CWE-755 -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Oct. 15, 2019
Action Type Old Value New Value Added CVSS V2 NIST (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Changed Reference Type https://www.espressif.com/en/news/Espressif_Security_Advisory_Concerning_Fault_Injection_and_Secure_Boot No Types Assigned https://www.espressif.com/en/news/Espressif_Security_Advisory_Concerning_Fault_Injection_and_Secure_Boot Mitigation, Vendor Advisory Added CWE NIST CWE-74 Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:espressif:esp-idf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 3.0 up to (excluding) 3.0.9 *cpe:2.3:a:espressif:esp-idf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (excluding) 3.1 up to (excluding) 3.1.6 *cpe:2.3:a:espressif:esp-idf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (excluding) 3.2 up to (excluding) 3.2.3 *cpe:2.3:a:espressif:esp-idf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 3.3 up to (excluding) 3.3.1
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
While CVE identifies
specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or
weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2019-15894 is
associated with the following CWEs:
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification
(CAPEC)
stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and
approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2019-15894
weaknesses.
Exploit Prediction
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.
0.10 }} -0.01%
score
0.40098
percentile