CVE-2020-17440
Contiki uIP DNS Domain Name Off-by-Zero Pointer Vulnerability
Description
An issue was discovered in uIP 1.0, as used in Contiki 3.0 and other products. The code that parses incoming DNS packets does not validate that domain names present in the DNS responses have '\0' termination. This results in errors when calculating the offset of the pointer that jumps over domain name bytes in DNS response packets when a name lacks this termination, and eventually leads to dereferencing the pointer at an invalid/arbitrary address, within newdata() and parse_name() in resolv.c.
INFO
Published Date :
Dec. 11, 2020, 11:15 p.m.
Last Modified :
Dec. 15, 2020, 3:06 p.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
Yes !
Impact Score :
3.6
Exploitability Score :
3.9
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth
information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to
CVE-2020-17440.
| URL | Resource |
|---|---|
| https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-20-343-01 | Third Party Advisory US Government Resource |
| https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/815128 | Third Party Advisory US Government Resource |
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CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Dec. 15, 2020
Action Type Old Value New Value Added CVSS V2 NIST (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Changed Reference Type https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-20-343-01 No Types Assigned https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-20-343-01 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource Changed Reference Type https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/815128 No Types Assigned https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/815128 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource Added CWE NIST NVD-CWE-Other Added CPE Configuration AND OR *cpe:2.3:a:uip_project:uip:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* OR cpe:2.3:o:contiki-os:contiki:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
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specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or
weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2020-17440 is
associated with the following CWEs:
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
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approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2020-17440
weaknesses.
Exploit Prediction
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0.10 }} 0.01%
score
0.39345
percentile