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TI-2023-14381 Aliases CVE-2023-30546

Contiki-NG has off-by-one error in Antelope DBMS

Priority MEDIUM 50CWE-125Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Code execution
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-193 and the CVSS impact.

Summary

Contiki-NG is an operating system for Internet of Things devices. An off-by-one error can be triggered in the Antelope database management system in the Contiki-NG operating system in versions 4.8 and prior. The problem exists in the Contiki File System (CFS) backend for the storage of data (file os/storage/antelope/storage-cfs.c). In the functions `storage_get_index` and `storage_put_index`, a buffer for merging two strings is allocated with one byte less than the maximum size of the merged strings, causing subsequent function calls to the cfs_open function to read from memory beyond the buffer size. The vulnerability has been patched in the "develop" branch of Contiki-NG, and is expected to be included in the next release. As a workaround, the problem can be fixed by applying the patch in Contiki-NG pull request #2425.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00638 50th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
Yes
Technical impact
Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
contiki-ngcontiki-ngup to 4.8—No fix listedCNA
  • contiki-ng Vendorcontiki-ng Affected up to 4.8 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:o:contiki-ng:contiki-ng:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*up to 4.8Vulnerablecontiki-ng
  • cpe:2.3:o:contiki-ng:contiki-ng:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions up to 4.8 Vulnerable ·contiki-ng

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-30546
  2. 2026-10-25 EPSS moved to the 50th–90th percentile

References

Patch 1

Advisory 1

  • TI-2020-14885 An issue was discovered in Contiki through 3.0 and Contiki-NG through 4.5. CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2020-16751 In Contiki 4.5, TCP ISNs are improperly random. CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
  • TI-2018-16029 contiki-ng version 4 contains a Buffer Overflow vulnerability in AQL (Antelope Query… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2018-13749 An issue was discovered in the MQTT server in Contiki-NG before 4.2. CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 10.0
  • TI-2023-14839 Contiki-NG missing NULL pointer check in IPv6 neighbor discovery CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2022-16354 Unverified DIO prefix info lengths in RPL-Classic in Contiki-NG CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
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Sources

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