What is CVE-2018-16522?

CVE-2018-16522 is a high-severity vulnerability in Amazon Web Services Freertos, classified under Access of Uninitialized Pointer. CVSS score: 8.1/10. Published 2018-12-06.

How severe is CVE-2018-16522?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.1 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Amazon Web Services Freertos

CVE-2018-16522

Amazon Web Services (AWS) FreeRTOS through 1.3.1 has an uninitialized pointer free in SOCKETS_SetSockOpt.

EPSS: 0.021 (79.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.1 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Amazon Amazon_web_services_freertos
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-824 — Access of Uninitialized Pointer

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory, Release Notes)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-16522?: CVE-2018-16522 is a high-severity vulnerability in Amazon Web Services Freertos, classified under Access of Uninitialized Pointer. CVSS score: 8.1/10. Published 2018-12-06.
How severe is CVE-2018-16522?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.1 out of 10.