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CVE-2026-22213VulnerabilityPublished Updated

CVE-2026-22213: RIOT OS · Stack-based Buffer Overflow

Affects RIOT OSSource CVE Database V5

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Not known to be exploited · CVSS 2.4 Low.

Data as of 25 Oct 2026, 19:02 UTC

CVSS 4.0 base score
2.4Low
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
EPSS
0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 34% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 12 Jan 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponised: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 2026-10-25.

What to do

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
RIOTRIOT OSAffected
  • <=2026.01-devel-317
Fixed in–
GitHubRIOT OSpkg:github/RIOT OSOther threatsAffected
  • <=2026.01-devel-317
Fixed in–

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AI-suggested

Until a fix is available, avoid running tapslip6 with untrusted input for the -s option or apply input validation controls externally if possible.

Description

RIOT OS versions up to and including 2026.01-devel-317 contain a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the tapslip6 utility. The vulnerability is caused by unsafe string concatenation in the devopen() function, which constructs a device path using unbounded user-controlled input. The utility uses strcpy() and strcat() to concatenate the fixed prefix '/dev/' with a user-supplied device name provided via the -s command-line option without bounds checking. This allows an attacker to supply an excessively long device name and overflow a fixed-size stack buffer, leading to process crashes and memory corruption.

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