Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-39225

Gl-Inet Mt6000 Firmware 4.5.8

Public PoC
Published
06 August 2024
Modified
15 August 2024
CVSS Score v3.1 9.8
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.14 96th percentile
Risk Priority 91 floored blend · peak EPSS

CVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.

Summary

CVE-2024-39225 is a critical-severity Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts (CWE-307) vulnerability in Gl-Inet Mt6000 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Brute Force (T1110); ranked in the top 4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to AC-7 (Unsuccessful Logon Attempts) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary

Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.

GL-iNet routers including the AR750, AR750S, AR300M, MT300N-V2, B1300, MT1300, SFT1200, X750 (v4.3.11), MT3000, MT2500, AXT1800, AX1800, A1300, X300B (v4.5.16), XE300 (v4.3.16), E750 (v4.3.12), AP1300, S1300 (v4.3.13), and XE3000/X3000 (v4.4) contain a remote code execution vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-39225. The flaw carries a CVSS 9.8 score reflecting network-accessible, unauthenticated attack conditions and maps to CWE-307, improper restriction of excessive authentication attempts.

An unauthenticated attacker with network access can exploit the weakness to bypass the login mechanism and execute arbitrary code on the device, resulting in full compromise of the affected router. The supplied reference details the login bypass technique used to reach code execution.

EPSS scores have reached a peak of 0.4653 with a current value of 0.4453, indicating sustained exploitation interest after public disclosure. The issue was published via GL.iNet's own CVE repository on GitHub.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

A07:2025 Authentication Failures

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

GL-iNet products AR750/AR750S/AR300M/AR300M16/MT300N-V2/B1300/MT1300/SFT1200/X750 v4.3.11, MT3000/MT2500/AXT1800/AX1800/A1300/X300B v4.5.16, XE300 v4.3.16, E750 v4.3.12, AP1300/S1300 v4.3.13, and XE3000/X3000 v4.4 were discovered to contain a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability.

CWE(s)
CWE-307

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1110 Brute Force Credential Access
Adversaries may use brute force techniques to gain access to accounts when passwords are unknown or when password hashes are obtained.
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T1110.001 Password Guessing Credential Access
Adversaries with no prior knowledge of legitimate credentials within the system or environment may guess passwords to attempt access to accounts.
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T1110.003 Password Spraying Credential Access
Adversaries may use a single or small list of commonly used passwords against many different accounts to attempt to acquire valid account credentials.
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T1110.004 Credential Stuffing Credential Access
Adversaries may use credentials obtained from breach dumps of unrelated accounts to gain access to target accounts through credential overlap.
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T1078 Valid Accounts Stealth
Adversaries may obtain and abuse credentials of existing accounts as a means of gaining Initial Access, Persistence, Privilege Escalation, or Defense Evasion.
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Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

CVEs Like This One

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CVE-2024-39229Same product: Gl-Inet A1300
CVE-2024-39228Same product: Gl-Inet A1300
CVE-2026-32292Same vendor: Gl-Inet
CVE-2024-39227Same product: Gl-Inet A1300
CVE-2024-39226Same product: Gl-Inet A1300
CVE-2024-27356Same product: Gl-Inet A1300
CVE-2024-45259Same product: Gl-Inet A1300
CVE-2024-45262Same product: Gl-Inet A1300

Affected Assets

gl-inet
mt6000 firmware
4.5.8
gl-inet
a1300 firmware
4.5.16
gl-inet
x300b firmware
4.5.16
gl-inet
ax1800 firmware
4.5.16
gl-inet
axt1800 firmware
4.5.16
gl-inet
mt2500 firmware
4.5.16
gl-inet
mt3000 firmware
4.5.16
gl-inet
x3000 firmware
4.4.8
gl-inet
xe3000 firmware
4.4.8
gl-inet
xe300 firmware
4.3.16
+18 more product configuration(s) — see NVD for full list

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)

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Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

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Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)
  • 2 hardening rules · 1 OS baseline
Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)

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Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

AC-7 Unsuccessful Logon Attempts good match

AC-7 directly enforces limits on consecutive failed logons, structurally blocking brute-force exploitation of the weakness.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.AA-03 mostly match
prevents

Authentication enforcement directly includes lockout, throttling, and MFA policies that prevent brute-force attempts.

DE.CM-03 partial match
prevents

Behavioral monitoring of authentication activity can detect excessive failed attempts after they occur.

PR.PS-04 partial match
prevents

Generating auth logs enables later detection or forensics but does not itself restrict attempts.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

A.8.5 Secure authentication partial match
prevents

CAPTCHA, account lock-out after repeated failures, and alerts on excessive attempts directly stop automated brute-force guessing of credentials.

Hardening callouts derived

Configuration rules from DISA STIG baselines that bear on weaknesses of the type cited by this CVE. Each rule is shown with the relationship its mapping actually records, against the CWE it was authored against. Derived via CVE→CWE over `controls_xwalks` (authoritative rows only; rows rated `none` are excluded).

RHEL 7 (2 rules)
  • V-204427 The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system must be configured to lock accounts for a minimum of 15 minutes after three unsuccessful logon attempts within a 15-minute timeframe. prevents CWE-307
  • V-204428 The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system must lock the associated account after three unsuccessful root logon attempts are made within a 15-minute period. prevents CWE-307

References