6.5
MEDIUM
CVE-2021-28135
Espressif ESP-IDF Bluetooth Classic Unauthenticated Denial of Service (DoS)
Description

The Bluetooth Classic implementation in Espressif ESP-IDF 4.4 and earlier does not properly handle the reception of continuous unsolicited LMP responses, allowing attackers in radio range to trigger a denial of service (crash) in ESP32 by flooding the target device with LMP Feature Response data.

INFO

Published Date :

Sept. 7, 2021, 6:15 a.m.

Last Modified :

July 12, 2022, 5:42 p.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

No

Impact Score :

3.6

Exploitability Score :

2.8
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2021-28135 has a 3 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2021-28135 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Espressif esp-idf
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-2021-28135.

URL Resource
https://dl.packetstormsecurity.net/papers/general/braktooth.pdf Broken Link
https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/espressif/esp32-bt-lib Third Party Advisory
https://www.espressif.com/en/products/socs/esp32 Product

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

None

Updated: 2 years, 7 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : April 5, 2022, 9:49 p.m. This repo has been linked 64 different CVEs too.

A Series of Baseband & LMP Exploits against Bluetooth Classic Controllers

Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago
430 stars 83 fork 83 watcher
Born at : June 7, 2021, 6:52 p.m. This repo has been linked 25 different CVEs too.

List of Bluetooth BR/EDR/LE security resources

bluetooth bluetooth-low-energy bluetooth-security pentesting penetration-testing security awesome awesome-list ble bluetooth-hacking

Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago
499 stars 45 fork 45 watcher
Born at : June 21, 2020, 6:27 p.m. This repo has been linked 68 different CVEs too.

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2021-28135 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2021-28135 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CWE Remap by [email protected]

    Jul. 12, 2022

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed CWE CWE-20 NVD-CWE-Other
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Sep. 13, 2021

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 NIST (AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
    Changed Reference Type https://dl.packetstormsecurity.net/papers/general/braktooth.pdf No Types Assigned https://dl.packetstormsecurity.net/papers/general/braktooth.pdf Broken Link
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/espressif/esp32-bt-lib No Types Assigned https://github.com/espressif/esp32-bt-lib Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf No Types Assigned https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://www.espressif.com/en/products/socs/esp32 No Types Assigned https://www.espressif.com/en/products/socs/esp32 Product
    Added CWE NIST CWE-20
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:espressif:esp-idf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (including) 4.4
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

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Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

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Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.14 }} 0.04%

score

0.50185

percentile

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