Description
Eclipse Wakaama before snapshot/2026-05-26 contains an unbounded memory allocation vulnerability in the CoAP Block1 handler within coap/block.c that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to exhaust server memory by sending a sequence of Block1 PUT requests with incrementing block numbers. Attackers can target the registration endpoint over UDP without authentication, causing the server to repeatedly reallocate a growing accumulation buffer by appending each block payload without enforcing any maximum total size limit, resulting in denial of service through memory exhaustion.
Problem types
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Product status
Any version before snapshot/2026-05-26
Credits
Kazuma Matsumoto, a security researcher at GMO Cybersecurity by IERAE, Inc.
VulnCheck
References
github.com/...aama/wakaama/releases/tag/snapshots/2026-05-26 (Release Notes)
github.com/eclipse-wakaama/wakaama/pull/881 (Fix PR)
github.com/...ommit/a83f1ca28fa090fbc03c3669fef40daf4f89cd03 (Fix Patch)
www.vulncheck.com/...handler-unbounded-memory-allocation-dos