Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-12680 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in Coapthon Project Coapthon
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
The Serialize.deserialize() method in CoAPthon 3.1, 4.0.0, 4.0.1, and 4.0.2 mishandles certain exceptions, leading to a denial of service in applications that use this library (e.g., the standard CoAP server, CoAP client, CoAP reverse proxy, example collect CoAP server and client) when they receive crafted CoAP messages.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 4 |