CVE-2024-12354
Published: 09 December 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-12354 is a medium-severity Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer (CWE-119) vulnerability in Razormist Phone Contact Manager System. Its CVSS base score is 4.8 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Application or System Exploitation (T1499.004); ranked at the 42.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-50799
Vulnerability details
A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in SourceCodester Phone Contact Manager System 1.0. Affected is the function UserInterface::MenuDisplayStart of the component User Menu. The manipulation leads to buffer overflow. It is possible to launch the attack on…
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the local host. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Buffer overflow/improper input validation in UserInterface::MenuDisplayStart allows oversized input to trigger infinite loop, causing CPU exhaustion and application DoS via exploitation of the vulnerable component.
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.
Managed runtimes used by platform-independent applications (e.g., JVM, CLR) enforce memory safety, preventing most buffer overflows that require direct memory manipulation.
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.
Detects exploitation attempts that produce memory corruption, crashes, or anomalous behavior.