Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-28515

Critical

Published: 03 April 2024

Published
03 April 2024
Modified
15 April 2026
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.1616 95.0th percentile
Risk Priority 29 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

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

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.

CWE(s)

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.

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