CVE-2020-12141

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2021-10-19 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-125

Description

An out-of-bounds read in the SNMP stack in Contiki-NG 4.4 and earlier allows an attacker to cause a denial of service and potentially disclose information via crafted SNMP packets to snmp_ber_decode_string_len_buffer in os/net/app-layer/snmp/snmp-ber.c.

Affected products

contiki-ng: through 4.4

References

https://github.com/contiki-ng/contiki-ng/commit/12c824386ab60de757de5001974d73b32e19ad71#diff-32367fad664c6118fd5dda77cdf38eedc006cdd7544eca5bbeebe0b99653f8a0
https://github.com/contiki-ng/contiki-ng/pull/1355
https://twitter.com/ScepticCtf
https://github.com/contiki-ng/contiki-ng/commit/12c824386ab60de757de5001974d73b32e19ad71#diff-32367fad664c6118fd5dda77cdf38eedc006cdd7544eca5bbeebe0b99653f8a0
https://github.com/contiki-ng/contiki-ng/pull/1355
https://twitter.com/ScepticCtf

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