Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-28759

Medium

Published: 14 May 2024

Published
14 May 2024
Modified
15 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0012 31.0th percentile
Risk Priority 9 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-28759 is a medium-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Windriver (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 4.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 31.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A crafted network packet may cause a buffer overrun in Wind River VxWorks 7 through 23.09.

CWE(s)
CWE-120

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

Windriver
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inferred from references and description; NVD did not file a CPE for this CVE

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.

SC-27 Platform-independent Applications
addresses: CWE-120

Platform-independent managed code eliminates the need for unchecked native buffer copies that are the root cause of classic buffer overflows.

References