ESP32 by Espressif has Bluetooth security issues

If you are feeling particularly paranoid and/or security conscious, a security paper outlining ‘undocumented commands in the BT chip’ made by Espressif has been published.

Bottom line is that these hidden commands allow third-parties to become trusted devices and connect to the BT device without authorisation.

Report on the paper here at BleepingComputer

Actual security release is here

UPDATE: Apparently more details have emerged and this is not as big an issue as the reporting would have us believe.

Nope.

Please search the forum before posting sensationalist articles like this.

Apologies. Came up on my security alerts feed and I thought it would be useful for the community. I will delete it.