What is CVE-2018-19442?

CVE-2018-19442 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Neatorobotics Botvac Connected, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2019-04-25.

How severe is CVE-2018-19442?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Neatorobotics Botvac Connected

CVE-2018-19442

A Buffer Overflow in Network::AuthenticationClient::VerifySignature in /bin/astro in Neato Botvac Connected 2.2.0 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges via a crafted POST request to a vendors/neato/robots/[robot_serial]/messages Neato cloud URI on the nucleo.neatocloud.com web site (port 4443).

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.075 (93.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Neatorobotics Botvac_connected
Neatorobotics Botvac_connected_firmware — versions 2.2.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-19442?: CVE-2018-19442 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Neatorobotics Botvac Connected, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2019-04-25.
How severe is CVE-2018-19442?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.