CVE-2026-22213

CRITICAL

RIOT OS <= 2026.01-devel-317 - Stack-based Buffer Overflow in tapslip6 Utility

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

RIOT OS versions up to and including 2026.01-devel-317 contain a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the tapslip6 utility. The vulnerability is caused by unsafe string concatenation in the devopen() function, which constructs a device path using unbounded user-controlled input. The utility uses strcpy() and strcat() to concatenate the fixed prefix '/dev/' with a user-supplied device name provided via the -s command-line option without bounds checking. This allows an attacker to supply an excessively long device name and overflow a fixed-size stack buffer, leading to process crashes and memory corruption.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory technical-description exploit
https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2026/Jan/15
Product product
https://www.riot-os.org/

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0036
EPSS Percentile 27.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-121
Status published
Products (3)
RIOT/RIOT OS < 2026.01-devel-317
riot-os/riot 2026.01 devel (2 CPE variants)
riot-os/riot < 2025.10
Published Jan 12, 2026
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026