CVE-2025-69209

Summary

ArduinoCore-avr contains the source code and configuration files of the Arduino AVR Boards platform. A vulnerability in versions prior to 1.8.7 allows an attacker to trigger a stack-based buffer overflow when converting floating-point values to strings with high precision. By passing very large decimalPlaces values to the affected String constructors or concat methods, the dtostrf function writes beyond fixed-size stack buffers, causing memory corruption and denial of service. Under specific conditions, this could enable arbitrary code execution on AVR-based Arduino boards.

Patches

• The Fix is included starting from the 1.8.7 release available from the following link ArduinoCore-avr v1.8.7

• The Fixing Commit is available at the following link 1a6a417f89c8901dad646efce74ae9d3ddebfd59

References

• ASEC-26-001 ArduinoCore-avr vXXXX Resolves Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Credits

• Maxime Rossi Bellom and Ramtine Tofighi Shirazi from SecMate (https://secmate.dev/)

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• CWE-120: CWE-120: Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical Impact: partial

References

• https://github.com/arduino/ArduinoCore-avr/security/advisories/GHSA-pvx3-fm7w-6hjm
• https://github.com/arduino/ArduinoCore-avr/pull/613
• https://github.com/arduino/ArduinoCore-avr/commit/82a8ad2fb33911d8927c7af22e0472b94325d1a7
• https://github.com/arduino/ArduinoCore-avr/releases/tag/1.8.7
• https://support.arduino.cc/hc/en-us/articles/24985906702748-ASEC-26-001-ArduinoCore-AVR-v1-8-7-Resolves-Stack-Based-Buffer-Overflow-Vulnerability

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