CVE-2025-24797 — Meshtastic incorrectly hands malformed packets leads to controlled buffer overflow

CVE-2025-24797

Meshtastic incorrectly hands malformed packets leads to controlled buffer overflow PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

Meshtastic is an open source mesh networking solution. A fault in the handling of mesh packets containing invalid protobuf data can result in an attacker-controlled buffer overflow, allowing an attacker to hijack execution flow, potentially resulting in remote code execution. This attack does not require authentication or user interaction, as long as the target device rebroadcasts packets on the default channel. This vulnerability fixed in 2.6.2.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
meshtastic / firmware	affected < 2.6.2

CWE

CWE-119, CWE-122

References

https://github.com/meshtastic/firmware/security/advisories/GHSA-33hw-xhfh-944r

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

No English description supplied.

No references supplied.