CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-21410

9.1 CRITICAL Published 2021-06-18 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-06-18
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.2 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.1 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.4 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-125

Description

Contiki-NG is an open-source, cross-platform operating system for Next-Generation IoT devices. An out-of-bounds read can be triggered by 6LoWPAN packets sent to devices running Contiki-NG 4.6 and prior. The IPv6 header decompression function (<code>uncompress_hdr_iphc</code>) does not perform proper boundary checks when reading from the packet buffer. Hence, it is possible to construct a compressed 6LoWPAN packet that will read more bytes than what is available from the packet buffer. As of time of publication, there is not a release with a patch available. Users can apply the patch for this vulnerability out-of-band as a workaround.

Affected configurations

• contiki-ng contiki-ng (<= 4.6)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness

References