Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-31196

Medium

Published: 18 September 2024

Published
18 September 2024
Modified
20 September 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0020 41.5th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-31196 is a medium-severity Unchecked Return Value to NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-690) vulnerability in Opennetworking Libfluid Msg. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Application or System Exploitation (T1499.004); ranked at the 41.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Unchecked Return Value to NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Open Networking Foundation (ONF) libfluid (libfluid_msg module). This vulnerability is associated with program routine fluid_msg::ActionList::unpack10. This issue affects libfluid: 0.1.0.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1499.004 Application or System Exploitation Impact
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities that can cause an application or system to crash and deny availability to users.
Why these techniques?

Unchecked return value leading to NULL pointer dereference allows remote unauthenticated network attacker to crash the libfluid component, enabling application-level DoS via exploitation.

Affected Assets

opennetworking
libfluid msg
0.1.0

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

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