CVE-2026-45541CWE-476

ESF-IDF: Remote Null Pointer Dereference in WebSocket Server

High · published June 10, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
57.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00825 · 57.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference
Published
2026-06-10T00:25Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 10 JUN 00:25Z
    ESF-IDF: Remote Null Pointer Dereference in WebSocket Server
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