CyRC Vulnerability Advisory: CVE-2022-39065 IKEA TRÅDFRI smart lighting gateway

Oct 10, 2022 / 1 min read

Table of Contents

Overview
Affected devices
Impact
Remediation
Discovery credit
Timeline
About CVSS

Overview

Researchers at the Black Duck Cybersecurity Research Center (CyRC) have discovered a vulnerability affecting availability in the IKEA TRÅDFRI smart lighting system. A single malformed IEEE 802.15.4 (Zigbee) frame makes the TRÅDFRI gateway unresponsive, such that connected lighting cannot be controlled with the IKEA Home Smart app and TRÅDFRI remote control.

The malformed Zigbee frame is an unauthenticated broadcast message, which means all vulnerable devices within radio range are affected.

To recover from this attack, a user could manually power cycle the gateway. However, an attacker could reproduce the attack at any time.

CVE-2022-39065 is related to another availability vulnerability that was recently discovered in the IKEA TRÅDFRI smart lighting system (CVE-2022-39064). Read our latest blog post to learn more.

Affected devices

IKEA Trådfri Gateway type E1526 version 1.17.44 and earlier

Impact

CVSS 3.1 base score: 6.5
CVSS 3.1 vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Remediation

Upgrade the gateway software to version 1.19.26 or later.

Discovery credit

This vulnerability was discovered by CyRC researchers Kari Hulkko and Tuomo Untinen using the Defensics® fuzz testing tool.

Timeline

June 17, 2021: Initial disclosure to Ikea
October 29, 2021: Ikea confirms a fix will be produced for the vulnerability
February 16, 2022: Ikea releases a fix for the vulnerability
October 5, 2022: Black Duck publishes advisory

About CVSS

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