# CVE-2023-30546: Contiki-NG has off-by-one error in Antelope DBMS

- Severity: CVSS 9.8 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-04-26 · Updated: 2025-01-30

## Affected

- contiki-ng: through 4.8

## Description

Contiki-NG is an operating system for Internet of Things devices. An off-by-one error can be triggered in the Antelope database management system in the Contiki-NG operating system in versions 4.8 and prior. The problem exists in the Contiki File System (CFS) backend for the storage of data (file os/storage/antelope/storage-cfs.c). In the functions `storage_get_index` and `storage_put_index`, a buffer for merging two strings is allocated with one byte less than the maximum size of the merged strings, causing subsequent function calls to the cfs_open function to read from memory beyond the buffer size. The vulnerability has been patched in the "develop" branch of Contiki-NG, and is expected to be included in the next release. As a workaround, the problem can be fixed by applying the patch in Contiki-NG pull request #2425.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on contiki-ng, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/contiki-ng/contiki-ng/security/advisories/GHSA-257g-w39m-5jj4
- https://github.com/contiki-ng/contiki-ng/pull/2425

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