Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-8748

High

Published: 03 December 2024

Published
03 December 2024
Modified
21 January 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0073 73.1th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-8748 is a high-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Zyxel Vmg8825-T50K Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 26.9% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A buffer overflow vulnerability in the packet parser of the third-party library "libclinkc" in Zyxel VMG8825-T50K firmware versions through V5.50(ABOM.8.4)C0 could allow an attacker to cause a temporary denial of service (DoS) condition against the web management interface by sending…

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a crafted HTTP POST request to a vulnerable device.

CWE(s)
CWE-120

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

zyxel
lte3301-plus firmware
≤ 1.00\(abqu.6\)c0
zyxel
lte5388-m804 firmware
≤ 1.00\(absq.5\)c0
zyxel
lte5398-m904 firmware
≤ 1.00\(abq.5\)c0
zyxel
lte7480-m804 firmware
≤ 1.00\(abra.10\)c0
zyxel
lte7490-m904 firmware
≤ 1.00\(abqy.9\)c0
zyxel
nr7101 firmware
≤ 1.00\(abu.11\)c0
zyxel
nr7102 firmware
≤ 1.00\(abyd.4\)c0
zyxel
nebula nr5101 firmware
≤ 1.16\(accg.1\)c0
zyxel
nebula nr7101 firmware
≤ 1.16\(accc.1\)c0
zyxel
nebula lte3301-plus firmware
≤ 1.18\(acca.5\)c0
+53 more product configuration(s) — see NVD for full list

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