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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2019-12480

BACnet Protocol Stack through 0.8.6 has a segmentation fault leading to denial of service in BACnet APDU Layer because a malformed DCC in AtomicWriteFile, AtomicReadFile and DeviceCommunicationControl services.

HIGH 7.5EPSS 33.7%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 33.7%, higher than 98% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

BACnet Protocol Stack through 0.8.6 has a segmentation fault leading to denial of service in BACnet APDU Layer because a malformed DCC in AtomicWriteFile, AtomicReadFile and DeviceCommunicationControl services. An unauthenticated remote attacker could cause a denial of service (bacserv daemon crash) because there is an invalid read in bacdcode.c during parsing of alarm tag numbers.

CVSS 3.0
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
33.65% probability · 98th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-125
Affected
bacnet protocol stack project/bacnet protocol stack
Source
cve@mitre.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.