CoAPthon DoS due to Exceptions
High severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
Apr 8, 2019
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Sep 5, 2023
Description
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Apr 8, 2019
Reviewed
Jun 16, 2020
Last updated
Sep 5, 2023
The
Serialize.deserialize()
method in CoAPthon 3.1, 4.0.0, 4.0.1, and 4.0.2 mishandles certain exceptions, leading to a denial of service in applications that use this library (e.g., the standard CoAP server, CoAP client, CoAP reverse proxy, example collect CoAP server and client) when they receive crafted CoAP messages.References