CVE-2025-24797 is a critical vulnerability affecting Meshtastic firmware and software, an open-source mesh networking solution. It involves a buffer overflow due to improper handling of invalid protobuf data in mesh packets, allowing unauthenticated remote code execution without user interaction if the device rebroadcasts on the default channel. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL) and a FAUCET Risk Score of 96/100, this vulnerability poses a severe risk, enabling full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or KEV listing, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion, indicating awareness.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:meshtastic:meshtastic_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.