CVE-2025-12899

Summary

A flaw in Zephyr’s network stack allows an IPv4 packet containing ICMP type 128 to be misclassified as an ICMPv6 Echo Request. This results in an out-of-bounds memory read and creates a potential information-leak vulnerability in the networking subsystem.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
zephyrproject-rtosZephyr* <= 4.2affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-843: Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: yes
    • Technical Impact: partial

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