CVE-2025-53540 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2025-53540

CSRF Vulnerability in Firmware Update Endpoints Allows Remote Code Execution

Vulnerability Description

arduino-esp32 is an Arduino core for the ESP32, ESP32-S2, ESP32-S3, ESP32-C3, ESP32-C6 and ESP32-H2 microcontrollers. Several OTA update examples and the HTTPUpdateServer implementation are vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). The update endpoints accept POST requests for firmware uploads without CSRF protection. This allows an attacker to upload and execute arbitrary firmware, resulting in remote code execution (RCE). This vulnerability is fixed in 3.2.1.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

arduino-esp32
Vulnerable Versions:
< 3.2.1

Timeline

Official Publish: July 7th, 2025
Last Modified: July 7th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-352

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Initial Access
T1204.001 Malicious Link
Execution
T1098 Account Manipulation
Persistence
T1565.001 Stored Data Manipulation
Impact