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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2020-25111

This leads to Denial-of-Service and potential Remote Code Execution via a crafted ICMPv6 echo packet.

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 20.9%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 20.9%, higher than 98% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

An issue was discovered in the IPv6 stack in Contiki through 3.0. There is an insufficient check for the IPv6 header length. This leads to Denial-of-Service and potential Remote Code Execution via a crafted ICMPv6 echo packet.

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
20.88% probability · 98th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-787
Affected
contiki-os/contiki-os
Source
cve@mitre.org
EPSS trend
0%13%25%3 November 2026: 20.88%3 November 20263 November 2026

EPSS 20.9% since 3 November 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.