Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-25642

Medium

Published: 14 December 2023

Published
14 December 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0022 45.2th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-25642 is a medium-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Zte Mc801A Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 5.9 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 45.2th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

There is a buffer overflow vulnerability in some ZTE mobile internet producsts. Due to insufficient validation of tcp port parameter, an authenticated attacker could use the vulnerability to perform a denial of service attack. 

CWE(s)
CWE-120

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

zte
mc801a firmware
mc801a_elisa3_b19
zte
mc801a1 firmware
mc801a1_elisa1_b04

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.

SC-27 Platform-independent Applications
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