Advertising interruption via invalid access address handling
Published Nov 17, 2025 · Updated Nov 17, 2025
Improper condition handling in Espressif ESP-IDF allows remote attackers to interrupt ESP32 Bluetooth LE advertising. The ESP32 Bluetooth controller fails to reject reserved all-zero or all-one Access Addresses before stopping advertising and reporting a connection event, then drops the address without reporting an error or disconnection. An unauthenticated attacker within Bluetooth range must transmit a noncompliant request; the application can remain stuck in a false connected state while the device is no longer advertising.
Summary
What happened
Improper condition handling in Espressif ESP-IDF allows remote attackers to interrupt ESP32 Bluetooth LE advertising. The ESP32 Bluetooth controller fails to reject reserved all-zero or all-one Access Addresses before stopping advertising and reporting a connection event, then drops the address without reporting an error or disconnection. An unauthenticated attacker within Bluetooth range must transmit a noncompliant request; the application can remain stuck in a false connected state while the device is no longer advertising.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-64342
- Published
- Nov 17, 2025
- Updated
- Nov 17, 2025
- Vendor
- Espressif Systems
- Product
- ESP-IDF
- Classifications
- CWE-754, T1499
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Nov 17, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Nov 17, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=< 5.1.7
- Affected versionversion=>= 5.2-beta1, < 5.2.6
- Affected versionversion=>= 5.3-beta1, < 5.3.5
- Affected versionversion=>= 5.4-beta1, < 5.4.3
- Affected versionversion=>= 5.5-beta1, < 5.5.2
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