Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-25390

High

Published: 27 March 2024

Published
27 March 2024
Modified
04 November 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 8.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0006 18.2th percentile
Risk Priority 17 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-25390 is a high-severity Heap-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-122) vulnerability in Rt-Thread Rt-Thread. Its CVSS base score is 8.4 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 18.2th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A heap buffer overflow occurs in finsh/msh_file.c and finsh/msh.c in RT-Thread through 5.0.2.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation Privilege Escalation
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to elevate privileges.
T1210 Exploitation of Remote Services Lateral Movement
Adversaries may exploit remote services to gain unauthorized access to internal systems once inside of a network.
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.
Why these techniques?

Heap buffer overflow in RT-Thread FinSH/MSH shell enables remote exploitation for privilege escalation (T1068), initial access via remote services like telnet (T1210), and endpoint denial of service through application exploitation (T1499.004).

Affected Assets

rt-thread
rt-thread
≤ 5.0.2

Mitigating Controls

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

References