CVE-2020-10063 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2020-10063

Remote Denial of Service in CoAP Option Parsing Due To Integer Overflow

Vulnerability Description

A remote adversary with the ability to send arbitrary CoAP packets to be parsed by Zephyr is able to cause a denial of service. This issue affects: zephyrproject-rtos zephyr version 2.2.0 and later versions.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • NCC Group for report

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Affected Vendor

zephyrproject-rtos

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Affected Software

zephyr
Vulnerable Versions:
2.2.0, 2.1.0, 1.14.0

Timeline

Official Publish: June 5th, 2020
Last Modified: September 17th, 2024
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-190

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Initial Access
T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation
Privilege Escalation
T1055 Process Injection
Defense Evasion
T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer
Command and Control
T1499 Endpoint Denial of Service
Impact