False Alarms and Close Calls: The Analysis and Verification of Ripple20 and Its Ripple Effect

Uncover the Real Impact of Ripple20 Vulnerabilities

Ripple20 is a set of 19 vulnerabilities in the Treck TCP/IP stack that has raised serious concerns across industries. It has proven to be one of the most widespread vulnerabilities and is elusive to traditional detection techniques due to the many variants spread out over many years of releases.

According to JSOF, this series of vulnerabilities affects hundreds of millions of devices and includes multiple remote execution code vulnerabilities, which would allow an attacker to gain complete control over a target device remotely.

At Finite State, we conducted an in-depth analysis to verify the actual risk posed by Ripple20. What we found in our attempts to verify the effects of these vulnerabilities is that the effects and impacts initially reported by JSOF are greatly exaggerated. 

Download this whitepaper for a breakdown of our results and methods and understand why these discrepancies matter and how they affect your organization and your network.

Why It Matters

Ripple20 vulnerabilities are embedded in device firmware across industries, from healthcare to manufacturing and critical infrastructure. While initial reports created alarm, our research helps you separate hype from actionable security measures.

Don’t rely on assumptions—get the data-driven insights you need.