CVE-2018-16522 — Amazon Web Services (AWS) FreeRTOS through 1

Amazon Web Services (AWS) FreeRTOS through 1.3.1 has an uninitialized pointer free in SOCKETS_SetSockOpt.

01What is this vulnerability?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) FreeRTOS through 1.3.1 has an uninitialized pointer free in SOCKETS_SetSockOpt.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-12-06T23:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T10:24:32.668Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/aws/amazon-freertos/blob/v1.3.2/CHANGELOG.md
• blog.zimperium.com — https://blog.zimperium.com/freertos-tcpip-stack-vulnerabilities-details/
• blog.zimperium.com — https://blog.zimperium.com/freertos-tcpip-stack-vulnerabilities-put-wide-range-d…