CVE-2026-22213

Critical

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.

SeverityCritical
CVSS9.8
Exploit probability—
ProductRiot
PublishedJan 12, 2026
First seenJan 12, 2026
Weakness typeCWE-121CWE-121

How to fix

Update
  • riot-os riot2025.10 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
riot-os riotv < 2025.10, 2026.012025.10

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