Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-23916

Medium

Published: 18 September 2024

Published
18 September 2024
Modified
20 September 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0012 30.4th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-23916 is a medium-severity Unchecked Return Value to NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-690) vulnerability in Opennetworking Libfluid Msg. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Application or System Exploitation (T1499.004); ranked at the 30.4th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

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Vulnerability details

Unchecked Return Value to NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Open Networking Foundation (ONF) libfluid (libfluid_msg module). This vulnerability is associated with program routines fluid_msg::ActionSet::unpack. This issue affects libfluid: 0.1.0.

CWE(s)
CWE-690CWE-476

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1499.004 Application or System Exploitation Impact
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities that can cause an application or system to crash and deny availability to users.
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Why these techniques?

The vulnerability enables remote unauthenticated attackers to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) via NULL pointer dereference in libfluid_msg::ActionSet::unpack, facilitating application exploitation for endpoint DoS.

Affected Assets

opennetworking
libfluid msg
0.1.0

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

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