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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.5 High

CVE-2026-45541

ESF-IDF: Remote Null Pointer Dereference in WebSocket Server

Description

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 NULL-pointer dereference exists in the WebSocket subprotocol-negotiation path of the esp_http_server component. While parsing the client-supplied Sec-WebSocket-Protocol request header during the WebSocket handshake, the tokenisation result is dereferenced without a NULL check, so a malformed header value can crash the server before any application-level authentication runs. This issue has been patched in versions 5.2.7, 5.3.6, 5.4.5, 5.5.5, and 6.0.1.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

espressif esp-idf

  • = 6.0affected
  • = 5.5.4affected
  • = 5.4.4affected
  • = 5.3.5affected
  • = 5.2.6affected

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