CVE-2020-12886

CRITICAL

Arm Mbed OS 5.15.3 - Buffer Overflow

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A buffer over-read was discovered in the CoAP library in Arm Mbed OS 5.15.3. The CoAP parser is responsible for parsing received CoAP packets. The function sn_coap_parser_options_parse() parses the CoAP packet header starting from the message token. The length of the token in the received message is provided in the first byte parsed by the sn_coap_parser_options_parse() function. The length encoded in the message is not validated against the actual input buffer length before accessing the token. As a result, memory access outside of the intended boundary of the buffer may occur.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-os/issues/12948
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-coap/pull/116

Scores

CVSS v3 9.1
EPSS 0.0056
EPSS Percentile 68.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-125
Status published
Products (1)
arm/mbed_os 5.15.3
Published Jun 18, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026