CVE-2023-39541

A denial of service vulnerability exists in the ICMP and ICMPv6 parsing functionality of Weston Embedded uC-TCP-IP v3.06.01. A specially crafted network packet can lead to an out-of-bounds read. An attacker can send a malicious packet to trigger this vulnerability.This vulnerability concerns a denial of service within the parsing an IPv6 ICMPv6 packet.

CVSS v3 5.9 MEDIUM

5.9^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.2 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity HIGH

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2023-1828	Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2023-1828	Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2023-1828

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:weston-embedded:uc-tcp-ip:3.06.01:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

04 Nov 2025, 19:15

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
References		() https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2023-1828 -

Information

Published : 2024-02-20 15:15

Updated : 2025-11-04 19:15

NVD link : CVE-2023-39541

Mitre link : CVE-2023-39541

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2023-39541

JSON object : View

Products Affected

weston-embedded

uc-tcp-ip

CWE

CWE-126

Buffer Over-read

CWE-125

Out-of-bounds Read

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