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Medium · 6.4 CVE-2024-47079 EUVD-2024-42266

Unauthorized usage of remote hardware module because of missing channel verification

Published Oct 7, 2024 · Updated Oct 7, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Meshtastic is an open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices. Meshtastic firmware is an open source firmware implementation for the broader project. The remote hardware module of the firmware does not have proper checks to ensure a remote hardware control message was received should be considered valid. This issue has been addressed in release version 2.5.1. All users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
meshtastic firmware < 2.5.1 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 meshtastic No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 meshtastic No fix yet —

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