Vanetza: Remote Denial of Service via Uncaught Exception in ASN.1/OER Parsing
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Denial of service
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-248.
Summary
Vanetza is an open-source implementation of the ETSI C-ITS protocol suite. In 26.02 and earlier, a denial-of-service vulnerability was identified in the ASN.1/OER parsing pipeline of Vanetza. When processing malformed network packets containing corrupted ASN.1/OER structures (e.g., invalid length fields or malformed certificate encoding), the ASN.1 wrapper (asn1c_wrapper.cpp) raises a std::runtime_error. This exception is not caught at the parsing boundary and propagates to std::terminate, resulting in process termination. This vulnerability is fixed with commit 62dfe58a8342512b6e1947d75821402ada524f1a.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| riebl | vanetza | before 62dfe58a8342512b6e1947d75821402ada524f1a; up to 26.02 | 62dfe58a8342512b6e1947d75821402ada524f1a | Patch available | CNA |
- vanetza Vendorriebl Affected before 62dfe58a8342512b6e1947d75821402ada524f1a; up to 26.02 Fixed in 62dfe58a8342512b6e1947d75821402ada524f1a Patch available CNA
Remediation
- Fix · CNA vanetza (riebl) Fixed in 62dfe58a8342512b6e1947d75821402ada524f1a
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-43988
References
More riebl vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-32779 Vanetza: Remote Denial of Service via Uncaught OER Encoding Exception in Cryptographic Verification CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
Sources
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