PT-2018-13641 · Amazon Web Services+1 · Freertos+1

Ori Karliner · Published 2018-12-06 · Updated 2019-01-03 · CVE-2018-16602

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.9

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Amazon Web Services (AWS) FreeRTOS versions through 1.3.1 FreeRTOS versions up to 10.0.1 WITTENSTEIN WHIS Connect middleware TCP/IP component (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to out of bounds memory access during the parsing of DHCP responses in the prvProcessDHCPReplies function, which can be used for information disclosure.

Recommendations For Amazon Web Services (AWS) FreeRTOS versions through 1.3.1, update to a version later than 1.3.1 to resolve the issue. For FreeRTOS versions up to 10.0.1, update to a version later than 10.0.1 to resolve the issue. For WITTENSTEIN WHIS Connect middleware TCP/IP component, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-16602

Affected Products

Freertos

Wittenstein Whis Connect Middleware

References · 6

• 🔥 https://blog.zimperium.com/freertos-tcpip-stack-vulnerabilities-details · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16602 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-16602 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/aws/amazon-freertos/blob/v1.3.2/CHANGELOG.md · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-16602 · Note
• https://blog.zimperium.com/freertos-tcpip-stack-vulnerabilities-put-wide-range-devices-risk-compromise-smart-homes-critical-infrastructure-systems · Note