CVE-2025-55293 (GCVE-0-2025-55293)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-18 17:24
Modified
2025-08-18 17:41
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-287 - Improper Authentication
Summary
Meshtastic is an open source mesh networking solution. Prior to v2.6.3, an attacker can send NodeInfo with a empty publicKey first, then overwrite it with a new key. First sending a empty key bypasses 'if (p.public_key.size > 0) {', clearing the existing publicKey (and resetting the size to 0) for a known node. Then a new key bypasses 'if (info->user.public_key.size > 0) {', and this malicious key is stored in NodeDB. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.6.3.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| meshtastic | firmware |
Version: < 2.6.3 |
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