Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-2902

HighPublic PoC

Published: 26 March 2024

Published
26 March 2024
Modified
22 January 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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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 0.0093 76.5th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-2902 is a high-severity Stack-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-121) vulnerability in Tenda Ac7 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 23.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

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Vulnerability details

A vulnerability was found in Tenda AC7 15.03.06.44 and classified as critical. This issue affects the function fromSetWifiGusetBasic of the file /goform/WifiGuestSet. The manipulation of the argument shareSpeed leads to stack-based buffer overflow. The attack may be initiated remotely. The…

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exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The identifier VDB-257945 was assigned to this vulnerability. NOTE: The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

CWE(s)
CWE-121CWE-787

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.
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T1210 Exploitation of Remote Services Lateral Movement
Adversaries may exploit remote services to gain unauthorized access to internal systems once inside of a network.
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Why these techniques?

The stack-based buffer overflow in the Tenda AC7 router's web interface (/goform/WifiGuestSet#fromSetWifiGusetBasic) via the shareSpeed parameter allows remote, potentially unauthenticated attackers to achieve code execution, exploiting a public-facing application (T1190) and remote services (T1210).

Affected Assets

tenda
ac7 firmware
15.03.06.44

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.

SI-16 Memory Protection
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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