CVE-2019-16754

HIGH

RIOT 2019.07 - NULL Pointer Dereference in MQTT-SN Implementation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

RIOT 2019.07 contains a NULL pointer dereference in the MQTT-SN implementation (asymcute), potentially allowing an attacker to crash a network node running RIOT. This requires spoofing an MQTT server response. To do so, the attacker needs to know the MQTT MsgID of a pending MQTT protocol message and the ephemeral port used by RIOT's MQTT implementation. Additionally, the server IP address is required for spoofing the packet.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/pull/12293

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0147
EPSS Percentile 70.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (1)
riot-os/riot 2019.07
Published Sep 24, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026