CVE-2024-2546
Published: 17 March 2024
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
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-27495
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.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
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
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.
Out-of-bounds writes that corrupt control flow or inject shellcode are rendered non-executable by the same memory protections.