Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-50999

Medium

Published: 05 November 2024

Published
05 November 2024
Modified
22 April 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 0.0035 57.8th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-50999 is a medium-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Netgear R8500 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 5.7 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 42.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Netgear R8500 v1.0.2.160 was discovered to contain a command injection vulnerability in the sysNewPasswd parameter at password.cgi. This vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands via a crafted 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

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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