CVE-2024-12352
Published: 09 December 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-12352 is a medium-severity Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer (CWE-119) vulnerability in Totolink Ex1800T Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 37.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-50797
Vulnerability details
A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in TOTOLINK EX1800T 9.1.0cu.2112_B20220316. This vulnerability affects the function sub_40662C of the file /cgi-bin/cstecgi.cgi. The manipulation of the argument ssid leads to stack-based buffer overflow. The attack can be initiated remotely. The exploit…
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has been disclosed to the public and may be used.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Remote unauthenticated stack-based buffer overflow in the router's public-facing web CGI (/cgi-bin/cstecgi.cgi) enables exploitation of a public-facing application (T1190) for potential RCE or DoS via application/system exploitation (T1499.004).
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.
Memory protections (e.g., W^X, ASLR) make exploitation of buffer-boundary violations far harder to turn into code execution.
Ongoing control assessments and code testing (static/dynamic analysis, fuzzing) surface memory buffer restriction failures, which are then remediated before release.
Managed runtimes used by platform-independent applications (e.g., JVM, CLR) enforce memory safety, preventing most buffer overflows that require direct memory manipulation.
Detects exploitation attempts that produce memory corruption, crashes, or anomalous behavior.