Critical severity · published Jun 18, 2020
CVE-2020-12883
Buffer over-reads were discovered in the CoAP library in Arm Mbed OS 5.15.3
9.1
CVSS
1.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Buffer over-reads were discovered in the CoAP library in Arm Mbed OS 5.15.3. The CoAP parser is responsible for parsing received CoAP packets. The function sn_coap_parser_options_parse() parses CoAP input linearly using a while loop. Once an option is parsed in a loop, the current point (*packet_data_pptr) is increased correspondingly. The pointer is restricted by the size of the received buffer, as well as by the option delta and option length bytes. The actual input packet length is not verified against the number of bytes read when processing the option extended delta and the option extended length. Moreover, the calculation of the message_left variable, in the case of non-extended option deltas, is incorrect and indicates more data left for processing than provided in the function input. All of these lead to heap-based or stack-based memory location read access that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Depending on the platform-specific memory management mechanisms, it can lead to processing of unintended inputs or system memory access violation errors.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.8% · higher than 78% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
MO
Mbed OS · Arm
5.15.3 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-12883
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-12883
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-coap/pull/116
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-os/issues/12925
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-os/issues/12926
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-os/issues/12927
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