CVE-2018-11567: Amazon Echo Dot Firmware

Low severity, CVSS 3.3. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Prior to 2018-04-27, the reprompt feature in Amazon Echo devices could be misused by a custom Alexa skill. The reprompt feature is designed so that if Alexa does not receive an input within 8 seconds, the device can speak a reprompt, then wait an additional 8 seconds for input; if the user still does not respond, the microphone is then turned off. The vulnerability involves empty output-speech reprompts, custom wildcard ("gibberish") input slots, and logging of detected speech. If a maliciously designed skill is installed, an attacker could obtain transcripts of speech not intended for Alexa to process, but simply spoken within the device's hearing range. NOTE: The vendor states "Customer trust is important to us and we take security and privacy seriously. We have put mitigations in place for detecting this type of skill behavior and reject or suppress those skills when we do. Customers do not need to take any action for these mitigations to work.

Affected products

• Amazon Echo Dot Firmware: before 2018-04-27 (fixed in 2018-04-27)
• Amazon Echo Firmware: before 2018-04-27 (fixed in 2018-04-27)
• Amazon Echo Plus Firmware: before 2018-04-27 (fixed in 2018-04-27)
• Amazon Echo Show Firmware: before 2018-04-27 (fixed in 2018-04-27)
• Amazon Echo Spot Firmware: before 2018-04-27 (fixed in 2018-04-27)

Published 2018-05-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.