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Windriver Vxworks: vulnerabilities and CVEs

Windriver Vxworks has 44 published vulnerabilities, 5 of them in the last 12 months. 10 are rated critical and 0 are listed by CISA as actively exploited.

CVEs44
Last 12 months5
Critical10
Actively exploited0

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Latest vulnerabilities

CVESeverityEPSSActive exploitationPublishedDescription
CVE-2026-104018High (8.8)——Oct 1, 2026
An improper privilege management vulnerability (CWE-269) exists in the command shell of Wind River VxWorks 7 when configured to enforce per-user command privileges. Under certain shell operations, a command may be…
CVE-2026-102006Medium (5.5)0.10%—Sep 28, 2026
In Wind River VxWorks 7 prior to 26.09, specific system call arguments can result in the process management subsystem failing to properly release allocated kernel memory before terminating the calling application. Fixed…
CVE-2026-102005Medium (5.5)0.10%—Sep 28, 2026
Wind River VxWorks 7 24.03 through 26.03, a memory leak occurs under specific, non-default configuration states when processing specific service routines, causing the system to terminate operations before releasing…
CVE-2026-102004High (7.8)0.11%—Sep 28, 2026
Wind River VxWorks 7 prior to 26.09, specific system call arguments can result in memory corruption within the memory management subsystem. Fixed in Version 26.09
CVE-2026-97686Medium (5.5)0.10%—Sep 28, 2026
Wind River VxWorks 7 prior to 26.09, specific system call arguments can result in the IPNET subsystem failing to properly release allocated kernel memory and system file descriptors before terminating the calling…
CVE-2024-28759Medium (4.3)0.25%—May 14, 2024
A crafted network packet may cause a buffer overrun in Wind River VxWorks 7 through 23.09.
CVE-2023-51787High (7.5)0.49%—Feb 15, 2024
An issue was discovered in Wind River VxWorks 7 22.09 and 23.03. If a VxWorks task or POSIX thread that uses OpenSSL exits, limited per-task memory is not freed, resulting in a memory leak.
CVE-2023-38346High (8.8)1.5%—Sep 22, 2023
An issue was discovered in Wind River VxWorks 6.9 and 7. The function ``tarExtract`` implements TAR file extraction and thereby also processes files within an archive that have relative or absolute file paths. A…
CVE-2022-38767High (7.5)1.1%—Nov 25, 2022
An issue was discovered in Wind River VxWorks 6.9 and 7, that allows a specifically crafted packet sent by a Radius server, may cause Denial of Service during the IP Radius access procedure.
CVE-2022-23937High (7.5)1.0%—Mar 29, 2022
In Wind River VxWorks 6.9 and 7, a specific crafted packet may lead to an out-of-bounds read during an IKE initial exchange scenario.
CVE-2021-43268Medium (6.5)0.88%—Nov 24, 2021
An issue was discovered in VxWorks 6.9 through 7. In the IKE component, a specifically crafted packet may lead to reading beyond the end of a buffer, or a double free.
CVE-2020-35198Critical (9.8)2.5%—May 12, 2021
An issue was discovered in Wind River VxWorks 7. The memory allocator has a possible integer overflow in calculating a memory block's size to be allocated by calloc(). As a result, the actual memory allocated is smaller…
CVE-2021-29999Critical (9.8)1.8%—Apr 13, 2021
An issue was discovered in Wind River VxWorks through 6.8. There is a possible stack overflow in dhcp server.
CVE-2021-29998Critical (9.8)2.4%—Apr 13, 2021
An issue was discovered in Wind River VxWorks before 6.5. There is a possible heap overflow in dhcp client.
CVE-2021-29997Medium (5.3)1.0%—Apr 13, 2021
An issue was discovered in Wind River VxWorks 7 before 21.03. A specially crafted packet may lead to buffer over-read on IKE.
CVE-2016-20009Critical (9.8)1.9%—Mar 11, 2021
A DNS client stack-based buffer overflow in ipdnsc_decode_name() affects Wind River VxWorks 6.5 through 7. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer
CVE-2020-28895High (7.3)1.6%—Feb 3, 2021
In Wind River VxWorks, memory allocator has a possible overflow in calculating the memory block's size to be allocated by calloc(). As a result, the actual memory allocated is smaller than the buffer size specified by…
CVE-2020-11440High (7.5)1.1%—Jul 23, 2020
httpRpmFs in WebCLI in Wind River VxWorks 5.5 through 7 SR0640 has no check for an escape from the web root.
CVE-2020-10664High (7.5)1.4%—Apr 27, 2020
The IGMP component in VxWorks 6.8.3 IPNET CVE patches created in 2019 has a NULL Pointer Dereference.
CVE-2019-12262Critical (9.8)4.1%—Aug 14, 2019
Wind River VxWorks 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 6.9 and 7 has Incorrect Access Control in the RARP client component. IPNET security vulnerability: Handling of unsolicited Reverse ARP replies (Logical Flaw).
CVE-2019-12261Critical (9.8)9.0%—Aug 9, 2019
Wind River VxWorks 6.7 though 6.9 and vx7 has a Buffer Overflow in the TCP component (issue 3 of 4). This is an IPNET security vulnerability: TCP Urgent Pointer state confusion during connect() to a remote host.
CVE-2019-12260Critical (9.8)23%—Aug 9, 2019
Wind River VxWorks 6.9 and vx7 has a Buffer Overflow in the TCP component (issue 2 of 4). This is an IPNET security vulnerability: TCP Urgent Pointer state confusion caused by a malformed TCP AO option.
CVE-2019-12258High (7.5)23%—Aug 9, 2019
Wind River VxWorks 6.6 through vx7 has Session Fixation in the TCP component. This is a IPNET security vulnerability: DoS of TCP connection via malformed TCP options.
CVE-2019-12255Critical (9.8)75%—Aug 9, 2019
Wind River VxWorks has a Buffer Overflow in the TCP component (issue 1 of 4). This is a IPNET security vulnerability: TCP Urgent Pointer = 0 that leads to an integer underflow.
CVE-2019-12265Medium (5.3)60%—Aug 9, 2019
Wind River VxWorks 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 6.9.3 and 6.9.4 has a Memory Leak in the IGMPv3 client component. There is an IPNET security vulnerability: IGMP Information leak via IGMPv3 specific membership report.
CVE-2019-12263High (8.1)3.2%—Aug 9, 2019
Wind River VxWorks 6.9.4 and vx7 has a Buffer Overflow in the TCP component (issue 4 of 4). There is an IPNET security vulnerability: TCP Urgent Pointer state confusion due to race condition.
CVE-2019-12259High (7.5)16%—Aug 9, 2019
Wind River VxWorks 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 6.9 and vx7 has an array index error in the IGMPv3 client component. There is an IPNET security vulnerability: DoS via NULL dereference in IGMP parsing.
CVE-2019-12257High (8.8)84%—Aug 9, 2019
Wind River VxWorks 6.6 through 6.9 has a Buffer Overflow in the DHCP client component. There is an IPNET security vulnerability: Heap overflow in DHCP Offer/ACK parsing inside ipdhcpc.
CVE-2019-12256Critical (9.8)27%—Aug 9, 2019
Wind River VxWorks 6.9 and vx7 has a Buffer Overflow in the IPv4 component. There is an IPNET security vulnerability: Stack overflow in the parsing of IPv4 packets’ IP options.
CVE-2019-12264High (7.1)8.3%—Aug 5, 2019
Wind River VxWorks 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 6.9.3, 6.9.4, and Vx7 has Incorrect Access Control in IPv4 assignment by the ipdhcpc DHCP client component.

🎯 How it gets exploited (ATT&CK techniques)

  1. T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation4
  2. T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter2
  3. T1499.004 Application or System Exploitation2
  4. T1210 Exploitation of Remote Services1
  5. T1499 Endpoint Denial of Service1

Number of CVEs of this technology mapped to each exploitation or primary-impact technique.

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