Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-2546

High

Published: 17 March 2024

Published
17 March 2024
Modified
11 March 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0024 47.0th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-2546 is a high-severity Stack-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-121) vulnerability in Tenda Ac18 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 47.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A vulnerability has been found in Tenda AC18 15.13.07.09 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is the function fromSetWirelessRepeat. The manipulation of the argument wpapsk_crypto5g leads to stack-based buffer overflow. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploit…

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has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-256999. NOTE: The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
Why these techniques?

The remote stack-based buffer overflow in the Tenda AC18 router's web management function (fromSetWirelessRepeat with wpapsk_crypto5g parameter) enables exploitation of a public-facing application for remote code execution or denial of service.

Affected Assets

tenda
ac18 firmware
15.13.07.09

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.

addresses: CWE-787

Out-of-bounds writes that corrupt control flow or inject shellcode are rendered non-executable by the same memory protections.

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