Unintended Proxy or Intermediary Affecting freertos/freertos package, versions [,1.3.1][1.3.1,10.1.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.13% (50th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREERTOSFREERTOS-2365998
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed6 Dec 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-16598  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-441  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade freertos/freertos to version 10.1.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Unintended Proxy or Intermediary. An issue was discovered in Amazon Web Services (AWS) FreeRTOS through 1.3.1, FreeRTOS up to V10.0.1 (with FreeRTOS+TCP), and WITTENSTEIN WHIS Connect middleware TCP/IP component. In xProcessReceivedUDPPacket and prvParseDNSReply, any received DNS response is accepted, without confirming it matches a sent DNS request.

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