CVE-2019-12257

high-risk
Published 2019-08-09

Wind River VxWorks 6.6 through 6.9 has a Buffer Overflow in the DHCP client component. There is an IPNET security vulnerability: Heap overflow in DHCP Offer/ACK parsing inside ipdhcpc.

Do I need to act?

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15.4% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 85% of all CVEs
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
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CVSS 8.8/10 High
ADJACENT_NETWORK / LOW complexity
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/ 100
high-risk
Severity 27/34 · High
Exploitability 13/34 · Low
Exposure 18/34 · Moderate