CVE-2025-53627
mediumpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.002 · 10 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
Meshtastic is an open source mesh networking solution. The Meshtastic firmware (starting from version 2.5) introduces asymmetric encryption (PKI) for direct messages, but when the `pki_encrypted` flag is missing, the firmware silently falls back to legacy AES-256-CTR channel encryption. This was an intentional decision to maintain backwards compatibility. However, the end-user applications, like Web app, iOS/Android app, and applications built on top of Meshtastic using the SDK, did not have a way to differentiate between end-to-end encrypted DMs and the legacy DMs. This creates a downgrade attack path where adversaries who know a shared channel key can craft and inject spoofed direct messages that are displayed as if they were PKC encrypted. Users are not given any feedback of whether a direct message was decrypted with PKI or with legacy symmetric encryption, undermining the expected security guarantees of the PKI rollout. Version 2.7.15 fixes this issue.
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affected products (2)
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- meshtastic meshtastic firmware2.5.0 → 2.7.15nvdUScpe:2.3:o:meshtastic:meshtastic_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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references (5)
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- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2025-53627cnnvd
- https://github.com/meshtastic/firmware/security/advisories/GHSA-377p-prwp-4hwfcnnvd
- https://meshtastic.org/downloads/Patchcnnvd
- https://github.com/meshtastic/firmware/security/advisories/GHSA-377p-prwp-4hwfenisa_euvd
- https://github.com/meshtastic/firmware/security/advisories/GHSA-377p-prwp-4hwfExploitVendor Advisorynvd
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