A remotely exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the TCP options parser of the Nut/Net TCP/IP stack included in Nut/OS, developed by Ethernut/Egnite. Nut/OS releases up to version 5.1 are affected. An unauthenticated attacker can send a single TCP segment containing an unknown TCP option with a length byte of zero to any open TCP port on a vulnerable device. When processed, this malformed option triggers an infinite loop in the function NutTcpInputOptions, permanently blocking the TCP processing thread and rendering all TCP-based services unresponsive until the device is rebooted.
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Mon, 02 Nov 2026 17:15:00 +0000
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| Description | A remotely exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the TCP options parser of the Nut/Net TCP/IP stack included in Nut/OS, developed by Ethernut/Egnite. Nut/OS releases up to version 5.1 are affected. An unauthenticated attacker can send a single TCP segment containing an unknown TCP option with a length byte of zero to any open TCP port on a vulnerable device. When processed, this malformed option triggers an infinite loop in the function NutTcpInputOptions, permanently blocking the TCP processing thread and rendering all TCP-based services unresponsive until the device is rebooted. | |
| Title | CVE-2026-120596 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: certcc
Published:
Updated: 2026-11-02T17:17:35.066Z
Reserved: 2026-11-02T16:58:49.331Z
Link: CVE-2026-120596
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-11-02T17:17:40.003
Modified: 2026-11-02T17:17:40.003
Link: CVE-2026-120596
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