CVE-2018-12680

HIGH

CoAPthon 3.1-4.0.2 - DoS

Title source: llm

Description

The Serialize.deserialize() method in CoAPthon 3.1, 4.0.0, 4.0.1, and 4.0.2 mishandles certain exceptions, leading to a denial of service in applications that use this library (e.g., the standard CoAP server, CoAP client, CoAP reverse proxy, example collect CoAP server and client) when they receive crafted CoAP messages.

References (1)

[Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/Tanganelli/CoAPthon/issues/135

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0018

EPSS Percentile 38.8%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-502

Status published

Affected Products (5)

coapthon_project/coapthon

pypi/CoAPthon PyPI

Timeline

Published Apr 02, 2019

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026