CVE-2023-33248

Summary

CVECVE-2023-33248
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-05-24 22:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-06-01 17:20:00 UTC
DescriptionAmazon Alexa software version 8960323972 on Echo Dot 2nd generation and 3rd generation devices potentially allows attackers to deliver security-relevant commands via an audio signal between 16 and 22 kHz (often outside the range of human adult hearing). Commands at these frequencies are essentially never spoken by authorized actors, but a substantial fraction of the commands are successful.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Amazon Alexa 8960323972 All All All
Hardware Amazon Echo Dot - All 2nd_gen All
Hardware Amazon Echo Dot - All 3rd_gen All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
NUIT Attack MISC sites.google.com
Please update your browser MISC youtu.be
International Conference on Cloud, IoT and Security (CIOS 2023) MISC cios2023.org
[2305.10358] NUANCE: Near Ultrasound Attack On Networked Communication Environments MISC arxiv.org
www.usenix.org/system/files/sec23fall-prepub-261-xia-qi.pdf MISC www.usenix.org
GitHub - reveondivad/nuance: Hardware and software matrix updated for near ultrasonic attack testing MISC github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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