CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-65498

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Nov 24, 2025 | Modified: Dec 01, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

NULL pointer dereference in coap_dtls_generate_cookie() in src/coap_openssl.c in OISM libcoap 4.3.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted DTLS handshake that triggers SSL_get_SSL_CTX() to return NULL.

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Libcoap Libcoap 4.3.5 (including) 4.3.5 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References