Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-20073

Medium

Published: 03 June 2024

Published
03 June 2024
Modified
25 April 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0022 44.9th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-20073 is a medium-severity Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787) vulnerability in Openwrt Openwrt. Its CVSS base score is 6.6 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 44.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

In wlan service, there is a possible out of bounds write due to improper input validation. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with System execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation. Patch ID: WCNCR00367704; Issue…

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ID: MSV-1411.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

mediatek
software development kit
≤ 5.0.5.0
openwrt
openwrt
19.07.0, 21.02.0

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.

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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