Medium severity · published Mar 25, 2024
CVE-2024-28183
Anti Rollback bypass with physical access and TOCTOU attack
5.7
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
ESP-IDF is the development framework for Espressif SoCs supported on Windows, Linux and macOS. A Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) vulnerability was discovered in the implementation of the ESP-IDF bootloader which could allow an attacker with physical access to flash of the device to bypass anti-rollback protection. Anti-rollback prevents rollback to application with security version lower than one programmed in eFuse of chip. This attack can allow to boot past (passive) application partition having lower security version of the same device even in the presence of the flash encryption scheme. The attack requires carefully modifying the flash contents after the anti-rollback checks have been performed by the bootloader (before loading the application). The vulnerability is fixed in 4.4.7 and 5.2.1.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Physical
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 13% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
ES
esp-idf · espressif
< 4.4.7; >= 5.0, <= 5.0.6; >= 5.1, <= 5.1.3; >= 5.2, < 5.2.1 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-28183
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-28183
Patch
https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/commit/3305cb4d235182067936f8e940e6db174e25b4b2
Patch
https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/commit/4c95aa445d4e84f01f86b6f3a552aa299276abf3
Patch
https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/commit/534e3ad1fa68526a5f989fb2163856d6b7cd2c87
Patch
https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/commit/7003f1ef0dffc73c34eb153d1b0710babb078149
Patch
https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/commit/b2cdc0678965790f49afeb6e6b0737cd24433a05
Patch
https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/commit/c33b9e1426121ce8cccf1a94241740be9cff68de
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