# CVE-2019-13120: Amazon FreeRTOS up to and including v1.4.8 lacks length checking in prvProcessReceivedPublish, resulting in untargetable leakage of arbitrar

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2019-10-07 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

Amazon FreeRTOS up to and including v1.4.8 lacks length checking in prvProcessReceivedPublish, resulting in untargetable leakage of arbitrary memory contents on a device to an attacker. If an attacker has the authorization to send a malformed MQTT publish packet to an Amazon IoT Thing, which interacts with an associated vulnerable MQTT message in the application, specific circumstances could trigger this vulnerability.

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://aws.amazon.com/cn/freertos/security-updates/

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