CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-12680
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-04-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-502
Description
The Serialize.deserialize() method in CoAPthon 3.1, 4.0.0, 4.0.1, and 4.0.2 mishandles certain exceptions, leading to a denial of service in applications that use this library (e.g., the standard CoAP server, CoAP client, CoAP reverse proxy, example collect CoAP server and client) when they receive crafted CoAP messages.
Affected configurations
• coapthon project coapthon 3.1
• coapthon project coapthon 4.0.0
• coapthon project coapthon 4.0.1
• coapthon project coapthon 4.0.2
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data weakness
References
- https://github.com/Tanganelli/CoAPthon/issues/135 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/Tanganelli/CoAPthon/issues/135 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory