Use After Free Affecting zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr package, versions [4.2.0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.38% (31st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-ZEPHYRPROJECTRTOSZEPHYR-17734724
  • published30 Jun 2026
  • disclosed30 Jun 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 30 Jun 2026

CVE-2026-10655  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free in the sntp_close_async process. An attacker can cause a crash of the networking thread or potentially trigger memory corruption by manipulating the timing of SNTP/NTP responses to repeatedly induce a race condition between socket closure and polling.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1