CVE-2019-5040 — An exploitable information disclosure vulnerability exists in the Weave MessageL

An exploitable information disclosure vulnerability exists in the Weave MessageLayer parsing of Openweave-core version 4.0.2 and Nest Cam IQ Indoor version 4620002. A specially crafted weave packet can cause an integer overflow to occur, resulting in PacketBuffer data reuse. An a

01What is this vulnerability?

An exploitable information disclosure vulnerability exists in the Weave MessageLayer parsing of Openweave-core version 4.0.2 and Nest Cam IQ Indoor version 4620002. A specially crafted weave packet can cause an integer overflow to occur, resulting in PacketBuffer data reuse. An attacker can send a packet to trigger this vulnerability.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / Nest Labs	Nest Labs Openweave-core 4.0.2 Nest Labs Nest Cam IQ Indoor version 4620002

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: 2019-08-20T20:42:39.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T19:40:49.003Z

09References

• talosintelligence.com — https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2019-0803