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CVE-2025-5869

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in RT-Thread 5.1.0.

HIGH 8.6EPSS 0.82%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.82%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in RT-Thread 5.1.0. Affected is the function sys_recvfrom of the file rt-thread/components/lwp/lwp_syscall.c. The manipulation of the argument from leads to memory corruption.

CVSS 4.0
8.6 HIGHCVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M
EPSS
0.82% probability · 57th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-119
Affected
rt-thread/rt-thread
Source
cna@vuldb.com
EPSS trend
0%3%5%26 October 2026: 0.82%26 October 202626 October 2026

EPSS 0.8% 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

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