User Impersonation Affecting FreeRTOS/FreeRTOS-Plus-TCP package, versions [,4.2.6)[4.3.0,4.4.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (4th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREERTOSFREERTOSPLUSTCP-16323058
  • published30 Apr 2026
  • disclosed29 Apr 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Apr 2026

NewCVE-2026-7422  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-290  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade FreeRTOS/FreeRTOS-Plus-TCP to version 4.2.6, 4.4.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to User Impersonation in the packet processing logic when the Ethernet source MAC address matches a local endpoint. An attacker can bypass all checksum and minimum-size validation by sending specially crafted packets from an adjacent network.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1