CVE-2024-47065 Traceroute_APP responses are not rate-limited.
Attackers can flood remote nodes with traceroute requests, causing network denial of service and rapidly extracting positional data.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-47065?
CVE-2024-47065 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in meshtastic firmware, published on 11 Jul 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Meshtastic is an open source mesh networking solution. Prior to 2.5.1, traceroute responses from the remote node are not rate limited. Given that there are SNR measurements attributed to each received transmission, this is a guaranteed way to get a remote station to reliably and continuously respond. You could easily get 100 samples in a short amount of time (estimated 2 minutes), whereas passively doing the same could take hours or days. There are secondary effects that non-ratelimited traceroute does also allow a 2:1 reflected DoS of the network as well, but these concerns are less than the problem with positional confidentiality (other DoS routes exist). This vulnerability is fixed in 2.5.1.
Weakness: CWE-799
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-47065?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Meshtastic Meshtastic Firmware.
How do I fix CVE-2024-47065?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-47065 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2024-47065 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-47065 exists.
Other vulnerabilities in meshtastic firmware
- CVE-2025-52464 Meshtastic Repeated Public and Private Keypairs
- CVE-2025-55293 Meshtastic allows crafting of specific NodeInfo packets that overwrite any publicKey saved in the NodeDB
- CVE-2025-24797 Meshtastic incorrectly hands malformed packets leads to controlled buffer overflow
- CVE-2025-55292 In Meshtastic, an attacker can spoof licensed amateur flag for a node
- CVE-2024-47078 Meshtastic firmware Authentication/Authorization Bypass via MQTT