Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-24259

HighPublic PoC

Published: 05 February 2024

Published
05 February 2024
Modified
04 November 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0025 48.9th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-24259 is a high-severity Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime (CWE-401) vulnerability in Artifex Mupdf. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Application Exhaustion Flood (T1499.003); ranked at the 48.9th 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

Vulnerability details

freeglut through 3.4.0 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the menuEntry variable in the glutAddMenuEntry function.

CWE(s)
CWE-401

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1499.003 Application Exhaustion Flood Impact
Adversaries may target resource intensive features of applications to cause a denial of service (DoS), denying availability to those applications.
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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?

Memory leak in freeglut's glutAddMenuEntry can be triggered repeatedly to exhaust application memory, enabling application exhaustion flood and exploitation for endpoint denial of service.

Affected Assets

artifex
mupdf
1.23.9

Mitigating Controls

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

References