CVE-2023-37459CWE-125

Out-of-bounds read when processing a received IPv6 packet

Medium · published September 15, 2023

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
39.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Contiki-NG is an operating system for internet-of-things devices. In versions 4.9 and prior, when a packet is received, the Contiki-NG network stack attempts to start the periodic TCP timer if it is a TCP packet with the SYN flag set. But the implementation does not first verify that a full TCP header has been received. Specifically, the implementation attempts to access the flags field from the TCP buffer in the following conditional expression in the `check_for_tcp_syn` function. For this reason, an attacker can inject a truncated TCP packet, which will lead to an out-of-bound read from the packet buffer. As of time of publication, a patched version is not available. As a workaround, one can apply the changes in Contiki-NG pull request #2510 to patch the system.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00462 · 39.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read
Published
2023-09-15T19:19Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 SEP 19:19Z
    Out-of-bounds read when processing a received IPv6 packet
    cvelistv5