ESP-IDF 5.2-6.0 Heap Buffer Overflow in protocomm SRP6a
CVE-2026-45542 Published on June 10, 2026
ESF-IDF: Heap buffer overflow in protocomm Security2 over Bluetooth
ESF-IDF is the Espressif Internet of Things (IOT) Development Framework. In versions 5.2.6, 5.3.5, 5.4.4, 5.5.4, and 6.0, a heap buffer overflow exists in the Security Scheme 2 (SRP6a) session-setup path of the protocomm component. The first-phase handler (handle_session_command0() in components/protocomm/src/security/security2.c) trusts the length of a client-supplied protobuf field for the SRP6a username and copies it into a buffer whose size is derived from a narrower destination type. The resulting truncation-versus-copy asymmetry corrupts the heap when an oversized value is supplied. This issue has been patched in versions 5.2.7, 5.3.6, 5.4.5, 5.5.5, and 6.0.1.
Vulnerability Analysis
Weakness Type
Heap-based Buffer Overflow
A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().
Products Associated with CVE-2026-45542
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Affected Versions
espressif esp-idf:- Version = 5.2.6 is affected.
- Version = 5.3.5 is affected.
- Version = 5.4.4 is affected.
- Version = 5.5.4 is affected.
- Version = 6.0 is affected.