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