CVE-2023-39540 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2023-39540

A denial of service vulnerability exists in the ICMP and...

Vulnerability Description

A denial of service vulnerability exists in the ICMP and ICMPv6 parsing functionality of Weston Embedded uC-TCP-IP v3.06.01. A specially crafted network packet can lead to an out-of-bounds read. An attacker can send a malicious packet to trigger this vulnerability.This vulnerability concerns a denial of service within the parsing an IPv4 ICMP packet.

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:

  • Discovered by Francesco Benvenuto and Kelly Patterson of Cisco Talos.

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Affected Vendor

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Affected Software

Gecko Platform, uC-TCP-IP
Vulnerable Versions:
4.3.1.0, v3.06.01

Timeline

Official Publish: February 20th, 2024
Last Modified: November 4th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

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

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-126

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Initial Access
T1005 Data from Local System
Collection
T1552 Unsecured Credentials
Credential Access
T1040 Network Sniffing
Collection
T1499 Endpoint Denial of Service
Impact