CVE-2019-17212 describes critical buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the CoAP library of Arm Mbed OS 5.14.0, specifically within the sn_coap_parser_options_parse() function and other related parsing functions. These flaws allow for heap-based or stack-based buffer overflows due to insufficient pointer validation during CoAP packet parsing. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable with low attack complexity, enabling full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and no media coverage, it has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions, indicating awareness among security researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
5.13.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:mbed:mbed:5.13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.14.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:mbed:mbed:5.14.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.