Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-45971

Critical

Published: 15 November 2024

Published
15 November 2024
Modified
01 October 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0045 64.0th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-45971 is a critical-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Mz-Automation Libiec61850. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 36.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Multiple Buffer overflows in the MMS Client in MZ Automation LibIEC61850 before commit 1f52be9ddeae00e69cd43e4cac3cb4f0c880c4f0 allow a malicious server to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via the MMS IdentifyResponse message.

CWE(s)
CWE-120

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

mz-automation
libiec61850
≤ 1.6.0

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.

SC-27 Platform-independent Applications
addresses: CWE-120

Platform-independent managed code eliminates the need for unchecked native buffer copies that are the root cause of classic buffer overflows.

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