Medium
Security advisory
The Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) controller implementation in Espressif ESP-IDF 4.2 and earlier (for ESP32 devices) does not properly restrict the channel map field of the connection request packet on reception, allowing attackers in radio range to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted packet.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-13594
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:19 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) controller implementation in Espressif ESP-IDF 4.2 and earlier (for ESP32 devices) does not properly restrict the channel map field of the connection request packet on reception, allowing attackers in radio range to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted packet.
osv:CVE-2020-13594
Complete source record
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2020-08-31T15:15:10.633+00:00"
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