Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-50996

Medium

Published: 05 November 2024

Published
05 November 2024
Modified
07 May 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0024 47.1th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-50996 is a medium-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Netgear R8500 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 5.7 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 47.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Netgear R8500 v1.0.2.160, XR300 v1.0.3.78, R7000P v1.3.3.154, and R6400 v2 1.0.4.128 were discovered to contain a stack overflow via the bpa_server parameter at genie_bpa.cgi. This vulnerability allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted POST request.

CWE(s)
CWE-120

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

netgear
r8500 firmware
1.0.2.160
netgear
xr300 firmware
1.0.3.78
netgear
r7000p firmware
1.3.3.154
netgear
r6400v2 firmware
1.0.4.128

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.

References