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feat(core): add BLE battery service

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What the developer wrote

Authored by tychovrahe

57/100 · Thin
feat(core): add BLE battery service

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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds a standard Bluetooth 'battery service' that lets a connected phone or computer read the device's battery percentage. The feature itself is normal and not a security bug. The only small concern is that the new command accepts a battery level byte without checking the message length, but because the value is immediately passed to Zephyr's standard battery-service helper, there is no clear way to misuse it. There is no evidence this was reported as a security issue.

Recommended action

No security action required. As a defensive hardening measure, the Nordic process_command handler could add a length check (len >= 2) before indexing data[1] in the INTERNAL_CMD_BATTERY_UPDATE case.

Security signals we found

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New inter-processor command INTERNAL_CMD_BATTERY_UPDATE added without explicit input-length validation on Nordic receiver

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Battery state-of-charge value is forwarded from power manager to standard Zephyr BAS service

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No changelog entry, but commit title explicitly describes feature addition

Risk score

Why this scored 24/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 2/30
Exploitability 3/25
Stealth signal 4/15
Affected reach 3/15
Confidence 8/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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