Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-9043

Critical

Published: 20 September 2024

Published
20 September 2024
Modified
25 September 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0006 18.8th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-9043 is a critical-severity Stack-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-121) vulnerability in Cellopoint Secure Email Gateway. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked at the 18.8th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Secure Email Gateway from Cellopoint has Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in authentication process. Remote unauthenticated attackers can send crafted packets to crash the process, thereby bypassing authentication and obtaining system administrator privileges.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

cellopoint
secure email gateway
4.2.1 — 4.5.0

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.

addresses: CWE-787

Out-of-bounds writes that corrupt control flow or inject shellcode are rendered non-executable by the same memory protections.

References