CVE-2023-29468

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

Publication date:

14/08/2023

Last modified:

05/05/2025

Description

The Texas Instruments (TI) WiLink WL18xx MCP driver does not limit the number of information elements (IEs) of type XCC_EXT_1_IE_ID or XCC_EXT_2_IE_ID that can be parsed in a management frame. Using a specially crafted frame, a buffer overflow can be triggered that can potentially lead to remote code execution. This affects WILINK8-WIFI-MCP8 version 8.5_SP3 and earlier.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.80 CRITICAL
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

9.80

Severity 3.x

CRITICAL

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:ti:wilink8-wifi-mcp8::::::::		8.5 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:ti:wilink8-wifi-mcp8:8.5:-::::::
cpe:2.3:a:ti:wilink8-wifi-mcp8:8.5:sp3::::::

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2023-29468

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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