What is CVE-2026-76640?
Unitree G1 EDU firmware through 1.5.2 contains multiple chained vulnerabilities in the BLE GATT server and WiFi provisioning stack that allow unauthenticated proximate attackers to achieve root code execution without pairing or credentials by exploiting an unquoted heredoc variable in the WiFi provisioning script and a buffer overflow in the SSID chunk accumulator. Attackers can send crafted BLE writes to overflow a fixed BSS buffer across BLE connections, corrupting an adjacent mainloop function pointer dispatch entry that is subsequently invoked by the cleanup path passing attacker-controlled data to system() as uid 0.
Timeline
- 2026-08-27Published to the U.S. National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
- 2026-08-28NVD record last updated
Affected product
See advisory
Remediation Steps
- Apply vendor security update for Unitree G1 EDU
- Restrict Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) access to authorized devices only
- Audit robot system logs for unauthorized root access attempts
- Consider disabling unnecessary wireless interfaces if operationally feasible
References
Referenced in our briefings & reports
- Vulnerability Priority Report – Week 4 of August 2026 (August 24 – 30)
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