CVE-2021-40523

HIGH

Contiki 3.0 - Denial of Service via Telnet Option Negotiation Buffer Exhaustion

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In Contiki 3.0, Telnet option negotiation is mishandled. During negotiation between a server and a client, the server may fail to give the WILL/WONT or DO/DONT response for DO and WILL commands because of improper handling of exception condition, which leads to property violations and denial of service. Specifically, a server sometimes sends no response, because a fixed buffer space is available for all responses and that space may have been exhausted.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/contiki-os/contiki/issues/2686

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0093
EPSS Percentile 55.8%
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-754
Status published
Products (1)
contiki-os/contiki 3.0
Published Sep 05, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026