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CVE-2025-21608

There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

MEDIUM 5.3EPSS 0.36%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.36%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

Meshtastic is an open source mesh networking solution. In affected firmware versions crafted packets over MQTT are able to appear as a DM in client to a node even though they were not decoded with PKC. This issue has been addressed in version 2.5.19 and all users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

CVSS 4.0
5.3 MEDIUMCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M
EPSS
0.36% probability · 30th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-668
Affected
meshtastic/meshtastic firmware
Source
security-advisories@github.com

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.