CVE-2019-17212
Buffer overflows were discovered in the CoAP library in Arm Mbed OS 5.14.0.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (3.06%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Buffer overflows were discovered in the CoAP library in Arm Mbed OS 5.14.0. The CoAP parser is responsible for parsing received CoAP packets. The function sn_coap_parser_options_parse() parses CoAP input linearly using a while loop. Once an option is parsed in a loop, the current point (*packet_data_pptr) is increased correspondingly. The pointer is restricted by the size of the received buffer, as well as by the 0xFF delimiter byte. Inside each while loop, the check of the value of *packet_data_pptr is not strictly enforced. More specifically, inside a loop, *packet_data_pptr could be increased and then dereferenced without checking. Moreover, there are many other functions in the format of sn_coap_parser_****() that do not check whether the pointer is within the bounds of the allocated buffer. All of these lead to heap-based or stack-based buffer overflows, depending on how the CoAP packet buffer is allocated.
- CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 3.06% probability · 88th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-129, CWE-787
- Affected
- mbed/mbed
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 3.1% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-os/blob/d91ed5fa42ea0f32e4422a3c562e7b045a17da40/features/frameworks/mbed-coap/source/sn_coap_parser.c#L257Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-os/blob/d91ed5fa42ea0f32e4422a3c562e7b045a17da40/features/frameworks/mbed-coap/source/sn_coap_parser.c#L301Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-os/blob/d91ed5fa42ea0f32e4422a3c562e7b045a17da40/features/frameworks/mbed-coap/source/sn_coap_parser.c#L310Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-os/blob/d91ed5fa42ea0f32e4422a3c562e7b045a17da40/features/frameworks/mbed-coap/source/sn_coap_parser.c#L313Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-os/blob/d91ed5fa42ea0f32e4422a3c562e7b045a17da40/features/frameworks/mbed-coap/source/sn_coap_parser.c#L331Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-os/blob/d91ed5fa42ea0f32e4422a3c562e7b045a17da40/features/frameworks/mbed-coap/source/sn_coap_parser.c#L660Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-os/issues/11803Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-os/blob/d91ed5fa42ea0f32e4422a3c562e7b045a17da40/features/frameworks/mbed-coap/source/sn_coap_parser.c#L257Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-os/blob/d91ed5fa42ea0f32e4422a3c562e7b045a17da40/features/frameworks/mbed-coap/source/sn_coap_parser.c#L301Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-os/blob/d91ed5fa42ea0f32e4422a3c562e7b045a17da40/features/frameworks/mbed-coap/source/sn_coap_parser.c#L310Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-os/blob/d91ed5fa42ea0f32e4422a3c562e7b045a17da40/features/frameworks/mbed-coap/source/sn_coap_parser.c#L313Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-os/blob/d91ed5fa42ea0f32e4422a3c562e7b045a17da40/features/frameworks/mbed-coap/source/sn_coap_parser.c#L331Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-os/blob/d91ed5fa42ea0f32e4422a3c562e7b045a17da40/features/frameworks/mbed-coap/source/sn_coap_parser.c#L660Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-os/issues/11803Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.