Vulnerability in Amazon (CVE-2025-11616)
Summary
Vulnerability in Amazon (CVE-2025-11616). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
Bulletin ID: AWS-2025-023 Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 2025/10/10 10:15 PM PDT We identified the following CVEs: CVE-2025-11616 - A Buffer Over-read when receiving ICMPv6 packets of certain message types which are smaller than the expected size. CVE-2025-11617 - A Buffer Over-read when receiving a IPv6 packet with incorrect payload lengths in the packet header. CVE-2025-11618 - An invalid pointer dereference when receiving a UDP/IPv6 packet with an incorrect IP version field in the packet header. Description: FreeRTOS-Plus-TCP is an open source TCP/IP stack implementation specifically designed for FreeRTOS. The stack provides a standard Berkeley sockets interface and supports essential networking protocols including IPv6, ARP, DHCP, DNS, LLMNR, mDNS, NBNS, RA, ND, ICMP, and ICMPv6. These issues only affect applications using IPv6. Affected versions: v4.0.0 to v4.3.3, if IPv6 support is enabled
Source: AWS Security Bulletins NVD
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-11616 has been found in Amazon.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 5.4/10.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Amazon CVE-2025-11616" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2025-11616 (Amazon) — CWE-126 / CVSS v3 5.4
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / no user interaction
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-126) exists in Amazon.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Amazon.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 5.4/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'Amazon' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'Amazon' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
Amazonを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
References
- AWS aws.amazon.com
- patch aws.amazon.com
- patch github.com
- web github.com