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FKIE_CVE-2021-27425

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2022-05-03 21:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 03:44

Severity

7.3 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

Cesanta Software Mongoose-OS v2.17.0 is vulnerable to integer wrap-around in function mm_malloc. This improper memory assignment can lead to arbitrary memory allocation, resulting in unexpected behavior such as a crash or a remote code injection/execution.

References

URL	Tags
ics-cert@hq.dhs.gov	https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose-os	Product, Third Party Advisory
ics-cert@hq.dhs.gov	https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-21-119-04	Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose-os	Product, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-21-119-04	Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	cesanta	mongoose_os	2.17.0

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CVE-2021-27425 (GCVE-0-2021-27425)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-05-03 20:21 – Updated: 2025-04-16 16:25

Title

Cesanta Software Mongoose-OS Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Summary

Severity

7.3 (High)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-04-16 15:57 UTC

CWE

CWE-190 - Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Assigner

icscert icscert root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-2…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose-os	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Cesanta Software	Mongoose-OS	Affected: 2.17.0

Credits

David Atch, Omri Ben Bassat, and Tamir Ariel from Microsoft Section 52, and the Azure Defender for IoT research group reported these vulnerabilities to CISA.

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Sightings

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Nomenclature

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