CVE-2026-22213
CRITICALRIOT OS <= 2026.01-devel-317 - Stack-based Buffer Overflow in tapslip6 Utility
Title source: llmDescription
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
Product product
https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT
Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory technical-description
exploit
https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2026/Jan/15
Product product
https://www.riot-os.org/
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/riot-os-stack-based-buffer-overflow-in-tapslip6-utility
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