CVE-2024-50998
Published: 05 November 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-50998 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
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-45049
Vulnerability details
Netgear R8500 v1.0.2.160 was discovered to contain multiple stack overflow vulnerabilities in the component openvpn.cgi via the openvpn_service_port and openvpn_service_port_tun parameters. These vulnerabilities allow attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted POST request.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
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.
Platform-independent managed code eliminates the need for unchecked native buffer copies that are the root cause of classic buffer overflows.