CVE-2026-42855
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Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-42855, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.

Publication date: 2026-05-12

Last updated on: 2026-05-15

Assigner: GitHub, Inc.

Description

arduino-esp32 is an Arduino core for the ESP32, ESP32-S2, ESP32-S3, ESP32-C3, ESP32-C6 and ESP32-H2 microcontrollers. Prior to 3.3.8, the WebServer Digest authentication implementation in arduino-esp32 computes the authentication hash using the URI field from the client's Authorization header, without verifying that it matches the actual requested URI. This allows an attacker who possesses any valid digest response (computed for URI-A) to authenticate requests to a completely different protected URI (URI-B), bypassing per-resource access control. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.3.8.

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Published
2026-05-12
Last Modified
2026-05-15
Generated
2026-06-30
EPSS Evaluated
2026-06-28
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espressif arduino-esp32 to 3.3.8 (exc)

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CWE-287 When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.
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