Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-42383

Medium

Published: 18 November 2024

Published
18 November 2024
Modified
19 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 4.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0017 37.7th percentile
Risk Priority 9 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-42383 is a medium-severity Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset (CWE-823) vulnerability in Cesanta Mongoose. Its CVSS base score is 4.2 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 37.7th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset vulnerability in Cesanta Mongoose Web Server v7.14 allows to write a NULL byte value beyond the memory space dedicated for the hostname field.

CWE(s)
CWE-823NVD-CWE-Other

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
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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.
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Why these techniques?

The out-of-range pointer offset vulnerability in the public-facing Mongoose Web Server enables remote exploitation for initial access (T1190) and can cause application crashes or denial of service through memory corruption (T1499.004).

Affected Assets

cesanta
mongoose
≤ 7.14

Mitigating Controls

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

References