Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-45329 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-45329 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-45329?
- High severity, with a CVSS score of 7.1, published 10 June 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Espressif Systems ESP-IDF 5.5.4, 6.0.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-45329?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2026-45329 attacked?
- It is attacked with local access, in a software library.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-45329?
- Check whether you run Espressif Systems ESP-IDF at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
The vulnerability exists in several ESP-TEE secure-service wrappers within esp_secure_services.c and esp_secure_services_iram.c. These wrappers fail to validate all input pointer arguments provided by the Rich Execution Environment (REE). Because the underlying hardware peripherals (ECC, SHA, SPI) operate in RISC-V machine mode (M-mode) with full address-space access, a local attacker can provide pointers targeting TEE-exclusive memory. This allows the peripheral to read sensitive TEE data and return it to the REE, either as raw bytes or via a side-channel oracle. The issue affects Espressif SoCs with ESP-TEE support, including ESP32-C5, ESP32-C6, ESP32-C61, and ESP32-H2. It has been patched in versions 5.5.5 and 6.0.1.
Affected products
- Espressif Systems ESP-IDF 5.5.4, 6.0
Timeline
- 2026-05-13: advisory: Vendor advisory GHSA-w82j-7q63-7pqm published
- 2026-06-10: disclosed: CVE-2026-45329 published in NVD
References
- https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/commit/145ba4c42dc8283054cfde9a1c3470db7399192f
- https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/commit/7867f4a57560bf9fc4a931e37ba02b7a3e9f406b
- https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/commit/eebabaff2fdc273b1530fe66e55fb3bcd181dfd6
- https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/security/advisories/GHSA-w82j-7q63-7pqm