CVE-2025-47869: Apache NuttX RTOS: examples/xmlrpc: Fix calls buffers size.
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 39/100)
- The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.74% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 54.6% of all records.
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
- According to CISA the attack is automatable: targets can be found by mass scanning.
- Fixed version: Apache Software Foundation Apache NuttX RTOS 12.9.0.
Low priority for now. Upgrade to Apache Software Foundation Apache NuttX RTOS 12.9.0 or later.
Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it
Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS
Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability was discovered in Apache NuttX RTOS apps/exapmles/xmlrpc application. In this example application device stats structure that stored remotely provided parameters had hardcoded buffer size which could lead to buffer overflow. Structure members buffers were updated to valid size of CONFIG_XMLRPC_STRINGSIZE+1. This issue affects Apache NuttX RTOS users that may have used or base their code on example application as presented in releases from 6.22 before 12.9.0. Users of XMLRPC in Apache NuttX RTOS are advised to review their code for this pattern and update buffer sizes as presented in the version of the example in release 12.9.0.
- Published
- Jun 16, 2025
- Updated
- Jun 17, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.7% · 54th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-119
Report tools
Action score
39
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 39 / 40 · 9.8 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.7%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- yes
- Technical impact
- total
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
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| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| apache | nuttx | cpe:2.3:a:apache:nuttx |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- apache nuttx6.22 and later · before 12.9.0
Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (apache). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
Apache Software Foundation Apache NuttX RTOS
- 6.22 and later · before 12.9.0affected · semver
Same product
apache: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2021-26461malloc, realloc and memalign implementations are vulnerable to integer wrap-arounds41Plan
- CVE-2020-17529Apache NuttX (incubating) Out of Bound Write from invalid fragmentation offset value specified in the IP header40Plan
- CVE-2020-1939The Apache NuttX (Incubating) project provides an optional separate "apps" repository which contains various optional components and example40Plan
Published before and after this one in the same product
- ← EarlierCVE-2025-35003May 26, 2025 · Apache NuttX RTOS: NuttX Bluetooth Stack HCI and UART DoS/RCE Vulnerabilities.39Monitor
- ← EarlierCVE-2025-47868Jun 16, 2025 · Apache NuttX RTOS: tools/bdf-converter.: tools/bdf-converter: Fix loop termination condition.39Monitor
- Later →CVE-2025-48768Jan 1, 2026 · Apache NuttX RTOS: fs/inode: fs_inoderemove root inode removal26Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
| Product / package | Fixed version | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Apache Software Foundation Apache NuttX RTOS | 12.9.0 | Vendor (CNA) |
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
- Arnout Engelen <engelen@apache.org>remediation developer
- Lee, Lup Yuen <luppy@appkaki.com>remediation reviewer
- Xiang Xiao <xiaoxiang781216@gmail.com>remediation reviewer
- Alan Carvalho de Assis <acassis@gmail.com>remediation reviewer
- Alin Jerpelea <jerpelea@gmail.com>remediation reviewer
- Chánh Phạm <chanhphamviet@gmail.com>reporter
- Tomek CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info>coordinator
- JianyuWang <wangjianyu3@xiaomi.com>remediation reviewer
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
- CVE-2025-3500321 days apartApache NuttX RTOS: NuttX Bluetooth Stack HCI and UART DoS/RCE Vulnerabilities.39Monitor
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
- No account or password is required.
- No user action is required.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- high · data can be read
- Integrity
- high · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- high · the service can be disrupted
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- High
- Integrity impact
- High
- Availability impact
- High
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-119 · Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferCVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvd-secondary
Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
Attack patterns (CAPEC)
- Buffer Overflow via Environment VariablesCAPEC-10likelihood: High · High
- Overflow BuffersCAPEC-100likelihood: High · Very High
- Buffer ManipulationCAPEC-123likelihood: High · Very High
- Client-side Injection-induced Buffer OverflowCAPEC-14likelihood: Medium · High
- Filter Failure through Buffer OverflowCAPEC-24likelihood: High · High
- MIME ConversionCAPEC-42likelihood: High · High
- Overflow Binary Resource FileCAPEC-44likelihood: High · Very High
- Buffer Overflow via Symbolic LinksCAPEC-45likelihood: High · High
ATT&CK techniques
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Change log
- Fix✗ → ✓
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References
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