CVE-2024-28515
Published: 03 April 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-28515 is a critical-severity Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked in the top 5.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
CVE-2024-28515 is a buffer overflow vulnerability present in CSAPP Lab3 of the CSAPP_Lab project for the 15-213 Fall 20xx course. The flaw is located in the lab3/buflab-update.pl component and is tracked under CWE-125, receiving a CVSS 3.1 base score of 9.8.
A remote attacker can exploit the vulnerability over the network without authentication or user interaction, resulting in arbitrary code execution on the target system.
Public references consisting of a GitHub repository and associated Gist document the issue but contain no official mitigation steps or patch information. The EPSS score remains flat at 0.1616.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-25612
Vulnerability details
Buffer Overflow vulnerability in CSAPP_Lab CSAPP Lab3 15-213 Fall 20xx allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via the lab3 of csapp,lab3/buflab-update.pl component.
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Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.