CVE-2020-17437

HIGH

uIP < 1.0 - Out-of-bounds Write via TCP Urgent Pointer Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue was discovered in uIP 1.0, as used in Contiki 3.0 and other products. When the Urgent flag is set in a TCP packet, and the stack is configured to ignore the urgent data, the stack attempts to use the value of the Urgent pointer bytes to separate the Urgent data from the normal data, by calculating the offset at which the normal data should be present in the global buffer. However, the length of this offset is not checked; therefore, for large values of the Urgent pointer bytes, the data pointer can point to memory that is way beyond the data buffer in uip_process in uip.c.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource x_refsource_misc
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/815128
Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource x_refsource_misc
https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-20-343-01
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-541018.pdf

Scores

CVSS v3 8.2
EPSS 0.0026
EPSS Percentile 49.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-787
Status published
Products (11)
open-iscsi_project/open-iscsi < 2.1.7
siemens/sentron_3va_com100_firmware < 4.4.1
siemens/sentron_3va_com800_firmware < 4.4.1
siemens/sentron_3va_dsp800_firmware < 4.0
siemens/sentron_pac2200_clp_firmware
siemens/sentron_pac2200_firmware < 3.2.2
siemens/sentron_pac3200_firmware < 2.4.7
siemens/sentron_pac3200t_firmware < 3.2.2
siemens/sentron_pac3220_firmware < 3.2.0
siemens/sentron_pac4200_firmware < 2.3.0
... and 1 more
Published Dec 11, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026