7.5
HIGH
CVE-2017-7295
Contiki Operating System Httpd Use After Free Denial of Service Vulnerability
Description

An issue was discovered in Contiki Operating System 3.0. A use-after-free vulnerability exists in httpd-simple.c in cc26xx-web-demo httpd, where upon a connection close event, the http_state structure was not deallocated properly, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference in the output processing function. This resulted in a board crash, which can be used to perform denial of service.

INFO

Published Date :

May 28, 2017, 12:29 a.m.

Last Modified :

June 6, 2017, 2:01 p.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

3.6

Exploitability Score :

3.9
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2017-7295 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Contiki-os contiki
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Resource
https://gist.github.com/jackmcbride/c9328627f1ee104ce84f3fb7eff42f1e Third Party Advisory

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The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2017-7295 vulnerability over time.

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  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Jun. 06, 2017

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
    Added CVSS V3 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
    Changed Reference Type https://gist.github.com/jackmcbride/c9328627f1ee104ce84f3fb7eff42f1e No Types Assigned https://gist.github.com/jackmcbride/c9328627f1ee104ce84f3fb7eff42f1e Third Party Advisory
    Added CWE CWE-416
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:contiki-os:contiki:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

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Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.15 }} 0.05%

score

0.49875

percentile

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