Buffer overflow in Contiki-Os Contiki
CVE-2020-17437
An issue was discovered in uIP 1.0, as used in Contiki 3.0 and other products. When the Urgent flag is set in a TCP packet, and the stack is configured to ignore the urgent data, the stack attempts to use the value of the Urgent pointer bytes to separate the Urgent data from the normal data, by calculating the offset at which the normal data should be present in the global buffer. However, the length of this offset is not checked; therefore, for large values of the Urgent pointer bytes, the data pointer can point to memory that is way beyond the data buffer in uip_process in uip.c.
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 8.2 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.028 (86.5th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 86th percentile — 86.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.028 · newest: 0.028 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/815128 (US Government Resource, Third Party Advisory)
- us-cert.cisa.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-20-343-01 (US Government Resource, Third Party Advisory)
- cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-541018.pdf (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2020-17437?
- CVE-2020-17437 is a high-severity vulnerability in Contiki-Os Contiki, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 8.2/10. Published 2020-12-11.
- How severe is CVE-2020-17437?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.2 out of 10.