CVE-2018-12680

Summary

CVE	CVE-2018-12680
State	PUBLIC
Assigner	[email protected]
Source Priority	CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published	2019-04-02 20:29:00 UTC
Updated	2019-10-03 00:03:00 UTC
Description	The Serialize.deserialize() method in CoAPthon 3.1, 4.0.0, 4.0.1, and 4.0.2 mishandles certain exceptions, leading to a denial of service in applications that use this library (e.g., the standard CoAP server, CoAP client, CoAP reverse proxy, example collect CoAP server and client) when they receive crafted CoAP messages.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-502

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

Type	Vendor	Product	Version	Update	Edition	Language
Application	Coapthon Project	Coapthon	3.1	All	All	All
Application	Coapthon Project	Coapthon	4.0.0	All	All	All
Application	Coapthon Project	Coapthon	4.0.1	All	All	All
Application	Coapthon Project	Coapthon	4.0.2	All	All	All
Application	Coapthon Project	Coapthon	3.1	All	All	All
Application	Coapthon Project	Coapthon	4.0.0	All	All	All
Application	Coapthon Project	Coapthon	4.0.1	All	All	All
Application	Coapthon Project	Coapthon	4.0.2	All	All	All

References

Reference	Source	Link	Tags
Denial of Service vulnerability caused by improper exception handling while parsing of CoAP messages · Issue #135 · Tanganelli/CoAPthon · GitHub	MISC	github.com	Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record	CVE.ORG	www.cve.org	canonical
NVD vulnerability detail	NVD	nvd.nist.gov	canonical, analysis

No vendor comments have been submitted for this CVE.

Legacy QID Mappings

981282 Python (pip) Security Update for CoAPthon (GHSA-5xc6-fpc7-4qvg)