Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-49351

Critical

Published: 16 January 2024

Published
16 January 2024
Modified
02 June 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0037 59.2th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-49351 is a critical-severity Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787) vulnerability in Edimax Br-6478Ac Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 40.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in /bin/webs binary in Edimax BR6478AC V2 firmware veraion v1.23 allows attackers to overwrite other values located on the stack due to an incorrect use of the strcpy() function.

CWE(s)
CWE-787

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

edimax
br-6478ac firmware
1.23

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.

SI-16 Memory Protection
addresses: CWE-787

Out-of-bounds writes that corrupt control flow or inject shellcode are rendered non-executable by the same memory protections.

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