Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-37407

CriticalPublic PoC

Published: 08 June 2024

Published
08 June 2024
Modified
29 April 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0055 68.4th percentile
Risk Priority 19 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-37407 is a critical-severity Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125) vulnerability in Libarchive Libarchive. Its CVSS base score is 9.1 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 31.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Libarchive before 3.7.4 allows name out-of-bounds access when a ZIP archive has an empty-name file and mac-ext is enabled. This occurs in slurp_central_directory in archive_read_support_format_zip.c.

CWE(s)
CWE-125

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

libarchive
libarchive
3.7.3

Mitigating Controls

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

References