CVE-2024-38944
Published: 22 July 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-38944 is a critical-severity Code Injection (CWE-94) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked in the top 6.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
CVE-2024-38944 is a code injection vulnerability (CWE-94) affecting the Intelight X-1L Traffic controller running Maxtime version 1.9.6. The flaw resides in the /cgi-bin/generateForm.cgi?formID=142 component and carries a CVSS 3.1 base score of 9.8, reflecting network-accessible attack vectors that require no authentication or user interaction.
An unauthenticated remote attacker can send crafted requests to the affected endpoint to execute arbitrary code on the traffic controller, resulting in complete loss of confidentiality, integrity, and availability on the device.
The associated EPSS score rose from lower values to a peak of 0.1689 before settling at the current 0.1215, indicating that exploitation interest emerged after public disclosure. Public references consist of a technical gist that reproduces the issue but contain no vendor advisory or patch information.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-37679
Vulnerability details
An issue in Intelight X-1L Traffic controller Maxtime v.1.9.6 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via the /cgi-bin/generateForm.cgi?formID=142 component.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
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.
Makes persistent code injection into loaded programs impossible when the executable image itself resides on hardware-protected read-only media.
Dynamically generated code can be produced and executed inside the isolated chamber, preventing host compromise from code-injection payloads.
Validates inputs used in dynamic code generation to block injected directives.
Directly prevents execution of attacker-supplied code written into data memory regions.