Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-59402

Flocksafety Bravo Compute Box Firmware

Public PoC
Published
25 September 2025
Modified
23 October 2025
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v3.1 5.4
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0022 12th percentile
Risk Priority 40 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2025-59402 is a medium-severity PHP (CWE-616) vulnerability in Flocksafety Bravo Compute Box Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 12th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

This vulnerability is AI-related — categorised as Mobile/Edge AI; in the Supply Chain and Deployment risk domain.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SA-8 (Security and Privacy Engineering Principles) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

Flock Safety Bravo Edge AI Compute Device BRAVO_00.00_local_20241017 accepts the default Thundercomm TurboX 6490 Firehose loader in EDL/QDL mode. This enables attackers with physical access to flash arbitrary firmware, dump partitions, and bypass bootloader and OS security controls.

CWE(s)

AI Security AnalysisAI

AI Category
Mobile/Edge AI
Risk Domain
Supply Chain and Deployment
OWASP Top 10 for LLMs 2025
None mapped
Classification Reason
Matched keywords: ai

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

CVEs Like This One

CVE-2025-59404Same product: Flocksafety Bravo Compute Box Firmware
CVE-2025-59408Same product: Flocksafety Bravo Compute Box Firmware
CVE-2025-59403Same vendor: Flocksafety
CVE-2024-31601Shared CWE-616
CVE-2025-59406Same vendor: Flocksafety
CVE-2025-59405Same vendor: Flocksafety
CVE-2025-52130Shared CWE-616
CVE-2024-29858Shared CWE-616
CVE-2026-67198Shared CWE-616
CVE-2025-59407Same vendor: Flocksafety

Affected Assets

flocksafety
bravo compute box firmware
all versions

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

Engineering principles such as complete mediation and least privilege require the use of the canonical $_FILES array rather than attacker-writable globals.

Proper validation of all file-upload inputs stops attackers from supplying or overwriting the legacy global variables that the flawed code relies on.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.PS-06 mostly match
prevents

Secure SDLC practices directly prevent use of the deprecated PHP upload globals and variable-overwrite flaws.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

finds

Security testing in development can detect the legacy upload pattern before deployment.

prevents

Secure development lifecycle mandates proper input handling and file-upload validation, directly addressing the outdated global-variable approach.

prevents

Application security requirements include secure file-upload mechanisms that eliminate reliance on the four legacy PHP variables.

prevents

Secure architecture principles discourage unsafe global state, indirectly reducing exposure to variable-injection attacks.

prevents

Secure coding explicitly prohibits use of deprecated upload variables and requires validated, server-side file handling.

References