CVE-2020-12885

An infinite loop 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_multiple_options() parses CoAP options in a while loop. This loop's exit condition is computed using the previously allocated heap memory required for storing the result of parsing multiple options. If the input heap memory calculation results in zero bytes, the loop exit condition is never met and the loop is not terminated. As a result, the packet parsing function never exits, leading to resource consumption.

• CVE ID
• CVE-2020-12885

• Assigner
• cve@mitre.org

• Vulnerability Status
• Analyzed

• Published Version
• 2020-06-18T19:15:10

• Last Modified Date
• 2020-06-25T14:35:22

• Version
• 2.0

• Vector String
• AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

• Access Vector
• NETWORK

• Access Compatibility
• LOW

• Authentication
• NONE

• Confidentiality Impact
• NONE

• Integrity Impact
• NONE

• Availability Impact
• COMPLETE

• Base Score
• 7.8

• Severity
• HIGH

• Exploitability Score
• 10

• Impact Score
• 6.9

• Version
• 3.1

• Vector String
• CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

• Attack Vector
• NETWORK

• Attack Compatibility
• LOW

• Privileges Required
• NONE

• User Interaction
• NONE

• Scope
• UNCHANGED

• Confidentiality Impact
• NONE

• Availability Impact
• HIGH

• Base Score
• 7.5

• Base Severity
• HIGH

• Exploitability Score
• 3.9

• Impact Score
• 3.6