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CVE-2018-19417 PUBLISHED CVSS 10 CRITICAL

An issue was discovered in the MQTT server in Contiki-NG before 4.2. The function parse_publish_vhdr() that parses MQTT PUBLISH messages with a variable length header uses memcpy to input data into a fixed size buffer. The allocated buffer can fit only MQTT_MAX_TOPIC_LENGTH (default 64) bytes, and a length check is missing. This could lead to Remote Code Execution via a stack-smashing attack (overwriting the function return address). Contiki-NG does not separate the MQTT server from other servers and the OS modules, so access to all memory regions is possible.

EPSS 6.15% · 90.8th percentile

Risk Scores

CVSS v2.0
10
EPSS Score
6.15%
90.8th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
contiki-ngcontiki-ng0
n/an/an/a

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