CVE-2020-14937

critical

Description

Memory access out of buffer boundaries issues was discovered in Contiki-NG 4.4 through 4.5, in the SNMP BER encoder/decoder. The length of provided input/output buffers is insufficiently verified during the encoding and decoding of data. This may lead to out-of-bounds buffer read or write access in BER decoding and encoding functions.

References

https://github.com/contiki-ng/contiki-ng/issues/1354

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mAkJBVZNv5PMVwLojru0njH38zEXpWui/view?usp=sharing

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-08-18

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.1

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00433