CVE-2018-16598 is a DNS spoofing vulnerability affecting Amazon Web Services (AWS) FreeRTOS through 1.3.1, FreeRTOS up to V10.0.1 (with FreeRTOS+TCP), and WITTENSTEIN WHIS Connect middleware TCP/IP component. The flaw allows an attacker to inject arbitrary DNS responses because the affected systems do not validate if a received DNS response matches a sent request. This medium-severity vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.9, indicating a high impact on integrity with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or Metasploit modules, the vulnerability has received limited community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:amazon:amazon_web_services_freertos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 10.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:amazon:freertos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.