CVE-2019-9004 — In Eclipse Wakaama (formerly liblwm2m) 1

In Eclipse Wakaama (formerly liblwm2m) 1.0, core/er-coap-13/er-coap-13.c in lwm2mserver in the LWM2M server mishandles invalid options, leading to a memory leak. Processing of a single crafted packet leads to leaking (wasting) 24 bytes of memory. This can lead to termination of t

01What is this vulnerability?

In Eclipse Wakaama (formerly liblwm2m) 1.0, core/er-coap-13/er-coap-13.c in lwm2mserver in the LWM2M server mishandles invalid options, leading to a memory leak. Processing of a single crafted packet leads to leaking (wasting) 24 bytes of memory. This can lead to termination of the LWM2M server after exhausting all available memory.

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: 2019-02-22T15:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T21:31:37.594Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/eclipse/wakaama/issues/425