Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-25391

High

Published: 27 March 2024

Published
27 March 2024
Modified
04 November 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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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-2024-25391 is a high-severity Stack-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-121) 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 stack buffer overflow occurs in libc/posix/ipc/mqueue.c in RT-Thread through 5.0.2.

CWE(s)
CWE-121

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.
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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?

Stack buffer overflow in RT-Thread POSIX IPC mqueue enables memory corruption for arbitrary code execution (facilitating privilege escalation, T1068) and denial of service via 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