ZephyrProject Zephyr up to 4.4.1 OCPP Client Message ocpp.c ocpp_process_server_msg uid null pointer dereference

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A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in ZephyrProject Zephyr up to 4.4.1. This vulnerability affects the function ocpp_process_server_msg of the file subsys/net/lib/ocpp/ocpp.c of the component OCPP Client Message Handler. Executing a manipulation of the argument uid can lead to null pointer dereference. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-13217. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in ZephyrProject Zephyr up to 4.4.1. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects the function ocpp_process_server_msg of the file subsys/net/lib/ocpp/ocpp.c of the component OCPP Client Message Handler. The manipulation of the argument uid with an unknown input leads to a null pointer dereference vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-476. A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit. As an impact it is known to affect availability. CVE summarizes:

The OCPP 1.6 client in subsys/net/lib/ocpp/ocpp.c reconstructs a session handle and PDU id from the uid field of a CALLRESULT message. In ocpp_process_server_msg() the code calls atoi(strtok_r(uid, "-", &tmp)) without checking the strtok_r return value. When the server-supplied uid is empty or contains no - delimiter, strtok_r() returns NULL and atoi(NULL) dereferences a NULL pointer, which is undefined behaviour. The uid originates from network data: parse_rpc_msg() in subsys/net/lib/ocpp/ocpp_j.c JSON-parses a frame received from the OCPP central system over TCP/WebSocket and copies the server-controlled string into the local buffer. A malicious or compromised central system, or a man-in-the-middle on a non-TLS ws:// connection, can return a malformed uid to reach the defect. No authentication beyond the existing server connection (or MITM position) is required, and the reconstructed pointer is membership-validated by ocpp_session_is_valid(), so the impact is limited to the NULL dereference rather than arbitrary pointer use. On Zephyr targets that trap access to address 0 (MMU/MPU platforms or CONFIG_NULL_POINTER_EXCEPTION_DETECTION), the dereference faults inside the OCPP reader thread and invokes the fatal handler, producing a remote denial of service of the charge point; on bare targets where address 0 is readable the call returns 0 and is benign, so the impact is availability-only and platform-conditional. The applied fix guards only the first atoi(); the second strtok_r(NULL, "-", &tmp) followed by pdu = atoi(buf) in the same function remains unguarded and the identical NULL dereference is still reachable from the same network input when the uid has a first token but no second --delimited token. A complete fix should validate the second token as well.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-13217 since 06/24/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit.

Upgrading to version 4.4.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Project Management Software

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• ZephyrProject

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• Zephyr

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• 4.4.0
• 4.4.1

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