CVE-2023-38924
Published: 07 August 2023
Summary
CVE-2023-38924 is a medium-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Netgear Dgn3500 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 35.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-42684
Vulnerability details
Netgear DGN3500 1.1.00.37 was discovered to contain a buffer overflow via the http_password parameter at setup.cgi.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
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.
Platform-independent managed code eliminates the need for unchecked native buffer copies that are the root cause of classic buffer overflows.