CVE-2024-4493
Published: 05 May 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-4493 is a high-severity Stack-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-121) vulnerability in Tenda I21 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 43.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-44107
Vulnerability details
A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Tenda i21 1.0.0.14(4656). Affected is the function formSetAutoPing. The manipulation of the argument ping1/ping2 leads to stack-based buffer overflow. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploit has…
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been disclosed to the public and may be used. VDB-263082 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability. NOTE: The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Stack-based buffer overflow in the router's web interface (formSetAutoPing) enables remote code execution via exploitation of a public-facing application.
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.
Out-of-bounds writes that corrupt control flow or inject shellcode are rendered non-executable by the same memory protections.