Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-24805

Medium

Published: 16 April 2024

Published
16 April 2024
Modified
17 January 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0029 52.7th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-24805 is a medium-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Redhat Enterprise Linux For Arm 64. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 47.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

net-snmp provides various tools relating to the Simple Network Management Protocol. Prior to version 5.9.2, a buffer overflow in the handling of the `INDEX` of `NET-SNMP-VACM-MIB` can cause an out-of-bounds memory access. A user with read-only credentials can exploit the…

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issue. Version 5.9.2 contains a patch. Users should use strong SNMPv3 credentials and avoid sharing the credentials. Those who must use SNMPv1 or SNMPv2c should use a complex community string and enhance the protection by restricting access to a given IP address range.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

net-snmp
net-snmp
≤ 5.9.2
fedoraproject
fedora
36
debian
debian linux
10.0, 11.0
redhat
enterprise linux
9.0
redhat
enterprise linux eus
9.2, 9.4
redhat
enterprise linux for arm 64
9.0, 9.2_aarch64, 9.4_aarch64
redhat
enterprise linux for arm 64 eus
9.4_aarch64
redhat
enterprise linux for ibm z systems
9.0, 9.2_s390x, 9.4_s390x
redhat
enterprise linux for ibm z systems eus
9.4_s390x
redhat
enterprise linux for power little endian
9.0
+5 more product configuration(s) — see NVD for full list

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-120

Platform-independent managed code eliminates the need for unchecked native buffer copies that are the root cause of classic buffer overflows.

References