What is CVE-2018-12679?

CVE-2018-12679 is a high-severity vulnerability in Coapthon3 Project, classified under Deserialization of Untrusted Data. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2019-04-02.

How severe is CVE-2018-12679?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2018-12679 known to be exploited?

2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Deserialization in Coapthon3 Project

CVE-2018-12679

The Serialize.deserialize() method in CoAPthon3 1.0 and 1.0.1 mishandles certain exceptions, leading to a denial of service in applications that use this library (e.g., the standard CoAP server, CoAP client, example collect CoAP server and client) when they receive crafted CoAP messages.

Vulnerability class: Insecure Deserialization

EPSS: 0.015 (71.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Coapthon3_project Coapthon3 — versions 1.0, 1.0.1
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-502 — Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-12679?: CVE-2018-12679 is a high-severity vulnerability in Coapthon3 Project, classified under Deserialization of Untrusted Data. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2019-04-02.
How severe is CVE-2018-12679?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2018-12679 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.