Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-8076

High

Published: 22 August 2024

Published
22 August 2024
Modified
13 December 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v4 8.7 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
EPSS Score 0.0021 43.8th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-8076 is a high-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Totolink T8 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 8.7 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 43.8th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A vulnerability was found in TOTOLINK AC1200 T8 4.1.5cu.862_B20230228 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is the function setDiagnosisCfg. The manipulation leads to buffer overflow. The attack may be launched remotely. NOTE: The vendor was contacted early about…

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this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

CWE(s)
CWE-120

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
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T1059.008 Network Device CLI Execution
Adversaries may abuse scripting or built-in command line interpreters (CLI) on network devices to execute malicious command and payloads.
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Why these techniques?

Remote buffer overflow in setDiagnosisCfg function enables exploitation of public-facing web application (T1190) and facilitates OS command injection for network device CLI execution (T1059.008).

Affected Assets

totolink
t8 firmware
4.1.5cu.862_b20230228

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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