Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-30949

Critical

Published: 20 August 2024

Published
20 August 2024
Modified
21 August 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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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 0.0069 72.3th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-30949 is a critical-severity Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CWE-190) vulnerability in Newlib Project Newlib. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 27.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An issue in newlib v.4.3.0 allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code via the time unit scaling in the _gettimeofday function.

CWE(s)
CWE-190CWE-787

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

newlib project
newlib
4.3.0

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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