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SCA: security update for esphome (GHSA-mxh2-ccgj-8635)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 435167

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - ESPHome is a system to control microcontrollers remotely through Home Automation systems. In version
 2025.8.0 in the ESP-IDF platform, ESPHome's web_server authentication check can pass incorrectly when the
 client-supplied base64-encoded Authorization value is empty or is a substring of the correct value. This
 allows access to web_server functionality (including OTA, if enabled) without knowing any information
 about the correct username or password. This issue has been patched in version 2025.8.1. (CVE-2025-57808)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mxh2-ccgj-8635

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 435167

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 9/2/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.37

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-57808

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/2/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/2/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-57808