CVE-2024-25139
Published: 14 March 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-25139 is a critical-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Tp-Link Omada Er605 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 10.0 (Critical).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 37.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-22487
Vulnerability details
In TP-Link Omada er605 1.0.1 through (v2.6) 2.2.3, a cloud-brd binary is susceptible to an integer overflow that leads to a heap-based buffer overflow. After heap shaping, an attacker can achieve code execution in the context of the cloud-brd binary…
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that runs at the root level. This is fixed in ER605(UN)_v2_2.2.4 Build 020240119.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
CVE-2024-25139 is a heap-based buffer overflow in the root-level cloud-brd binary on TP-Link Omada ER605 routers, enabling local privilege escalation through arbitrary code execution as root.
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.
Platform-independent managed code eliminates the need for unchecked native buffer copies that are the root cause of classic buffer overflows.