Out-of-bounds Read in Amazon Web Services Freertos

CVE-2019-13120

Amazon FreeRTOS up to and including v1.4.8 lacks length checking in prvProcessReceivedPublish, resulting in untargetable leakage of arbitrary memory contents on a device to an attacker. If an attacker has the authorization to send a malformed MQTT publish packet to an Amazon IoT Thing, which interacts with an associated vulnerable MQTT message in the application, specific circumstances could trigger this vulnerability.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.012 (64.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-13120?
CVE-2019-13120 is a high-severity vulnerability in Amazon Web Services Freertos, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2019-10-07.
How severe is CVE-2019-13120?
High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.