VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2026-22213
CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS probability0.40%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2026-01-12
Last modified2026-07-14
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
RIOT OS versions up to and including 2026.01-devel-317 contain a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the tapslip6 utility. The vulnerability is caused by unsafe string concatenation in the devopen() function, which constructs a device path using unbounded user-controlled input. The utility uses strcpy() and strcat() to concatenate the fixed prefix '/dev/' with a user-supplied device name provided via the -s command-line option without bounds checking. This allows an attacker to supply an excessively long device name and overflow a fixed-size stack buffer, leading to process crashes and memory corruption.
Weakness classification
- disclosure@vulncheck.com: CWE-121
Primary references
- disclosure@vulncheck.com — Product
- disclosure@vulncheck.com — Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- disclosure@vulncheck.com — Product
- disclosure@vulncheck.com — Third Party Advisory