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Two Unitree G1 EDU Humanoid Robot Flaws Enable Root RCE, One Starts Over Bluetooth

Researcher disclosed two root RCE chains in Unitree G1 EDU robots (CVE-2026-76639, CVE-2026-76640), one reachable via unpaired Bluetooth, with no confirmed fixed firmware.

Security researcher Olivier Laflamme disclosed two independent root remote code execution chains in the Unitree G1 EDU robot: CVE-2026-76639, a network-adjacent path through chat_go and bashrunner, and CVE-2026-76640, a Bluetooth Low Energy path that ends with a 1,050-byte buffer overflow in btgatt-server giving root on the Locomotion PC. The BLE chain also exploits a cloud authorization gap that let any valid Unitree account recover another robot's AES key, then forces the robot onto an attacker hotspot via wpa_connect.sh heredoc injection. Unitree patched the cloud ownership check in July 2026, but no confirmed fixed firmware release addresses the BLE issues; the PoC was limited to two robots in one room and no in-the-wild exploitation is reported.

Related CVEs

  • Unauthenticated Root RCE Chain in Unitree G1 EDU Robot Firmware
    Unitree G1 EDU firmware through version 1.5.2 contains an unauthenticated remote code execution flaw that chains three weaknesses: an unauthenticated WebRTC-to-DDS bridge on TCP port 9991, a static AES-128 key stored with world-readable permissions, and a path traversal flaw (CWE-22) in the chat_go knowledge upload API. A network-adjacent attacker can publish DDS control messages over the bridge to restart the bashrunner service, use the path traversal to plant a malicious payload in the bashrunner script execution directory, and then trigger its execution as uid 0. Because commands run as root, an attacker gains full control of the robot's operating system, not just its motion controls. All operators running G1 EDU firmware at or below 1.5.2 are affected, particularly those with port 9991 reachable from shared or wireless networks. Exploitation has not yet been observed: there is no public proof-of-concept, the flaw is not in CISA KEV, and EPSS estimates only a 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
    · Unitree G1 EDU robot firmware all versions through and including 1.5.2niche
  • Unauthenticated Root RCE via BLE in Unitree G1 EDU Firmware ≤ 1.5.2
    Unitree G1 EDU firmware through version 1.5.2 chains two flaws—an unquoted heredoc variable in the WiFi provisioning script and an out-of-bounds write in the SSID chunk accumulator of the BLE GATT/WiFi provisioning stack—that require no pairing, credentials, or user interaction. An unauthenticated attacker within BLE range sends crafted BLE GATT writes that overflow a fixed BSS buffer across BLE connections, corrupting an adjacent mainloop function-pointer dispatch entry. When the cleanup path later invokes the corrupted entry, attacker-controlled data is passed to system() as uid 0, giving the attacker root code execution on the robot (CVSS 4.0: 7.7 High, adjacent attack vector). Only operators of Unitree G1 EDU humanoid robots running firmware 1.5.2 or earlier are affected. No public proof-of-concept is known, the issue is not in CISA KEV, and EPSS estimates only a 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, so exploitation status is currently none known.
    · Unitree G1 EDU firmware all versions through and including 1.5.2niche

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