CVE-2024-23616
Published: 26 January 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-23616 is a critical-severity Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer (CWE-119) vulnerability in Broadcom Symantec Server Management Suite. Its CVSS base score is 10.0 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked in the top 8.9% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in Symantec Server Management Suite version 7.9 and earlier. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-23616 and assigned CWE-119 and CWE-120, carries a CVSS 3.1 score of 10.0 reflecting network attack vector, low complexity, no required privileges or user interaction, and full impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability within a changed scope.
A remote anonymous attacker can send crafted network traffic to trigger the overflow and obtain remote code execution with SYSTEM privileges on the affected server.
The provided references point to technical analysis from Exodus Intel but contain no details on vendor patches or mitigation steps. The associated EPSS score has remained flat at 0.0630 with no material increase since disclosure.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-21110
Vulnerability details
A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in Symantec Server Management Suite version 7.9 and before. A remote, anonymous attacker can exploit this vulnerability to achieve remote code execution as SYSTEM.
- 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.
Managed runtimes used by platform-independent applications (e.g., JVM, CLR) enforce memory safety, preventing most buffer overflows that require direct memory manipulation.
Ongoing control assessments and code testing (static/dynamic analysis, fuzzing) surface memory buffer restriction failures, which are then remediated before release.
Memory protections (e.g., W^X, ASLR) make exploitation of buffer-boundary violations far harder to turn into code execution.
Detects exploitation attempts that produce memory corruption, crashes, or anomalous behavior.