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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Attacker must be a joined Zigbee node (PR:L) reaching the target over the network (AV:N) with no interaction; crafted frame trivially triggers a crash (AC:L) causing availability-only loss (A:H).
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CVSS VectorVendor: Silabs
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In EmberZNet v9.0.2 and earlier, malformed Color Control messages can lead to asserts that terminate the process. These messages must come from a device that has already joined the network. Only devices supporting the Color Control cluster may be impacted.
AnalysisAI
Denial of service in Silicon Labs EmberZNet Zigbee stack (v9.0.2 and earlier) allows an already-joined network device to crash the target by sending malformed Color Control cluster messages, which trigger a reachable assertion that terminates the process. Only devices implementing the Color Control cluster (typically Zigbee lighting/color-capable nodes and coordinators) are affected. Vendor-rated CVSS 4.0 7.1 with availability-only impact; no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV.
Technical ContextAI
EmberZNet is Silicon Labs' widely embedded Zigbee 3.0 protocol stack used in IoT gateways, hubs, and smart-lighting SoCs/modules. The Color Control cluster is a standard Zigbee Cluster Library (ZCL) application-layer cluster used to manage hue, saturation, and color temperature on lighting devices. The root cause is CWE-617 (Reachable Assertion): malformed Color Control command frames reach an internal sanity-check assertion that the firmware cannot gracefully handle, causing the process/stack to abort rather than safely rejecting the bad input. This is a robustness/input-validation failure in ZCL frame parsing rather than a memory-corruption bug, which is consistent with the availability-only CVSS impact.
RemediationAI
Patch available per vendor advisory: upgrade EmberZNet beyond v9.0.2 to the fixed release distributed through the Silicon Labs SiSDK (https://github.com/SiliconLabsSoftware/sisdk-release/) and follow the advisory at https://siliconlabs.lightning.force.com/sfc/servlet.shepherd/document/download/069Vm00000pEGPQIA4; an exact patched version number is not stated in the provided data, so confirm the target release with Silicon Labs. Because exploitation requires an already-joined device, the most effective compensating control while planning firmware updates is to tighten network admission - disable or time-box open join/permit-join, use install codes and link-key based commissioning, and avoid admitting untrusted nodes onto networks that contain color-capable devices (trade-off: makes legitimate device onboarding more operationally cumbersome). Where Color Control functionality is not used, consider disabling or not exposing that cluster on affected nodes to remove the attack surface (trade-off: breaks color/lighting control features for those devices).
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Same weakness CWE-617 – Reachable Assertion
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EUVD-2026-39399
GHSA-j947-x436-34ff