CVE-2026-120596

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.
Configurations

No configuration.

History

02 Nov 2026, 18:18

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CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown
v2 : unknown
v3 : 7.5
CWE CWE-835

02 Nov 2026, 17:17

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New CVE

Information

Published : 2026-11-02 17:17

Updated : 2026-11-02 19:35


NVD link : CVE-2026-120596

Mitre link : CVE-2026-120596

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-120596


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Products Affected

No product.

CWE
CWE-835

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')