Vulnerability Details CVE-2023-37459
Contiki-NG is an operating system for internet-of-things devices. In versions 4.9 and prior, when a packet is received, the Contiki-NG network stack attempts to start the periodic TCP timer if it is a TCP packet with the SYN flag set. But the implementation does not first verify that a full TCP header has been received. Specifically, the implementation attempts to access the flags field from the TCP buffer in the following conditional expression in the `check_for_tcp_syn` function. For this reason, an attacker can inject a truncated TCP packet, which will lead to an out-of-bound read from the packet buffer. As of time of publication, a patched version is not available. As a workaround, one can apply the changes in Contiki-NG pull request #2510 to patch the system.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.002
EPSS Ranking 42.9%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 5.3
References
Products affected by CVE-2023-37459
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cpe:2.3:o:contiki-ng:contiki-ng:-
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cpe:2.3:o:contiki-ng:contiki-ng:2.0
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cpe:2.3:o:contiki-ng:contiki-ng:2.1
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cpe:2.3:o:contiki-ng:contiki-ng:2.2
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cpe:2.3:o:contiki-ng:contiki-ng:2.2.1
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cpe:2.3:o:contiki-ng:contiki-ng:2.2.2
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cpe:2.3:o:contiki-ng:contiki-ng:2.2.3
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cpe:2.3:o:contiki-ng:contiki-ng:2.3
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cpe:2.3:o:contiki-ng:contiki-ng:2.4
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cpe:2.3:o:contiki-ng:contiki-ng:2.5
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cpe:2.3:o:contiki-ng:contiki-ng:2.6
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cpe:2.3:o:contiki-ng:contiki-ng:2.7
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cpe:2.3:o:contiki-ng:contiki-ng:3.0
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cpe:2.3:o:contiki-ng:contiki-ng:4.0
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cpe:2.3:o:contiki-ng:contiki-ng:4.1
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cpe:2.3:o:contiki-ng:contiki-ng:4.2
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cpe:2.3:o:contiki-ng:contiki-ng:4.3
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cpe:2.3:o:contiki-ng:contiki-ng:4.4
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cpe:2.3:o:contiki-ng:contiki-ng:4.5
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cpe:2.3:o:contiki-ng:contiki-ng:4.6
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cpe:2.3:o:contiki-ng:contiki-ng:4.7
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cpe:2.3:o:contiki-ng:contiki-ng:4.8
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cpe:2.3:o:contiki-ng:contiki-ng:4.9