Memory disclosure via unchecked ClientHello field lengths
Published Oct 15, 2025 · Updated Oct 15, 2025
Buffer over-read in Eclipse ThreadX NetX Duo before 6.4.4 allows remote attackers to read process memory via a crafted TLS ClientHello. The _nx_secure_tls_process_clienthello() parser trusts attacker-controlled cipher-suite and compression-method lengths without confirming that the declared fields remain inside the received message buffer. The target must expose a NetX Duo TLS server using the affected parser; no authentication or user interaction is required, and only confidentiality impact is reported.
Summary
What happened
Buffer over-read in Eclipse ThreadX NetX Duo before 6.4.4 allows remote attackers to read process memory via a crafted TLS ClientHello. The _nx_secure_tls_process_clienthello() parser trusts attacker-controlled cipher-suite and compression-method lengths without confirming that the declared fields remain inside the received message buffer. The target must expose a NetX Duo TLS server using the affected parser; no authentication or user interaction is required, and only confidentiality impact is reported.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-55081
- Published
- Oct 15, 2025
- Updated
- Oct 15, 2025
- Vendor
- The Eclipse Foundation
- Product
- Eclipse ThreadX NetX Duo
- Classifications
- CWE-126, T1190
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Oct 15, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Oct 15, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <6.4.4
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