01 Record
CVE-2018-20579
Contiki-NG before 4.2 has a stack-based buffer overflow in the push function in os/lib/json/jsonparse.c that allows an out-of-bounds write of an '{' or '[' character.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
Contiki-NG before 4.2 has a stack-based buffer overflow in the push function in os/lib/json/jsonparse.c that allows an out-of-bounds write of an '{' or '[' character.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.32% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 24.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.1 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2018-12-28 18:00Z7 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-09-16 18:24Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2018-12-28
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787Out-of-bounds WriteBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 264c846cd3a37c5d0ca67ed4f39a31135d7b52c0d8a47b6a0fd2df2225972d9d
05 Affected products
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