Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-51228

Medium

Published: 27 November 2024

Published
27 November 2024
Modified
15 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.6421 98.5th percentile
Risk Priority 52 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-51228 is a medium-severity OS Command Injection (CWE-78) vulnerability in Totolink (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 6.8 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 1.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Deeper analysis

CVE-2024-51228 is an OS command injection vulnerability (CWE-78) present in multiple TOTOLINK router firmware versions, including CX-A3002RU V1.0.4-B20171106.1512, CX-N150RT V2.1.6-B20171121.1002, CX-N300RT V2.1.6-B20170724.1420 and V2.1.8-B20171113.1408 plus V2.1.8-B20191010.1107, and CX-N302RE V2.0.2-B20170511.1523. The flaw resides in the /boafrm/formSysCmd component and carries a CVSS 3.1 score of 6.8.

An attacker positioned on an adjacent network who possesses high-privileged credentials can supply crafted input to the affected endpoint, resulting in arbitrary code execution with impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Public references consist of a GitHub repository documenting Totolink BOA API issues together with vendor support pages for the listed models; no explicit patch or mitigation guidance is provided in the available sources. The associated EPSS score stands at 0.6421 with no recorded increase from its peak value.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An issue in TOTOLINK-CX-A3002RU V1.0.4-B20171106.1512 and TOTOLINK-CX-N150RT V2.1.6-B20171121.1002 and TOTOLINK-CX-N300RT V2.1.6-B20170724.1420 and TOTOLINK-CX-N300RT V2.1.8-B20171113.1408 and TOTOLINK-CX-N300RT V2.1.8-B20191010.1107 and TOTOLINK-CX-N302RE V2.0.2-B20170511.1523 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via the /boafrm/formSysCmd component.

CWE(s)
CWE-78

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

Totolink
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inferred from references and description; NVD did not file a CPE for this CVE

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-78

Platform-independent apps typically execute inside a managed runtime or sandbox that restricts direct OS command execution, reducing the ability to exploit OS command injection.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-78

Validates inputs to block special elements that would alter OS command execution.

References