CVE-2025-14858 PUBLISHED

Semtech LR11xx Encrypted Firmware Disclosure

Assigner: SWI
Reserved: 18.12.2025 Published: 07.04.2026 Updated: 07.04.2026

The Semtech LR11xx LoRa transceivers running early versions of firmware contains an information disclosure vulnerability in its firmware validation functionality. When a host issues a firmware validity check command via the SPI interface, the device decrypts the provided encrypted firmware package block-by-block to validate its integrity. However, the last decrypted firmware block remains uncleared in memory after the validation process completes. An attacker with access to the SPI interface can subsequently issue memory read commands to retrieve the decrypted firmware contents from this residual memory, effectively bypassing the firmware encryption protection mechanism. The attack requires physical access to the device's SPI interface.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/AU:N/R:A/V:C/RE:M
CVSS Score: 5.1

Product Status

Vendor Semtech
Product LR1110
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to TRX FW 0x0402 (excl.)
Vendor Semtech
Product LR1120
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to TRX FW 0x0202 (excl.)
Vendor Semtech
Product LR1121
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to TRX FW 0x0104 (excl.)

Credits

  • Egor (radioegor146) Koleda, https://github.com/radioegor146 finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-226 Sensitive Information in Resource Not Removed Before Reuse CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-37 Retrieve Embedded Sensitive Data