CVE-2020-17439

An issue was discovered in uIP 1.0, as used in Contiki 3.0 and other products

published December 11, 2020

CVSS
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EPSS
3%
Percentile
88.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

An issue was discovered in uIP 1.0, as used in Contiki 3.0 and other products. The code that parses incoming DNS packets does not validate that the incoming DNS replies match outgoing DNS queries in newdata() in resolv.c. Also, arbitrary DNS replies are parsed if there was any outgoing DNS query with a transaction ID that matches the transaction ID of an incoming reply. Provided that the default DNS cache is quite small (only four records) and that the transaction ID has a very limited set of values that is quite easy to guess, this can lead to DNS cache poisoning.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.03183 · 88.0th percentile
Published
2020-12-11T22:26Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 11 DEC 22:26Z
    An issue was discovered in uIP 1.0, as used in Contiki 3.0 and other products
    cvelistv5