CVE-2025-29045
Published: 17 April 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-29045 is a critical-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Alfa Wifi Camppro Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked in the top 8.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
Deeper analysis
CVE-2025-29045 is a buffer overflow vulnerability, tracked under CWE-120, that affects ALFA_CAMPRO-co-2.29. The flaw resides in handling of the newap_text_0 key value and carries a CVSS 3.1 score of 9.8, reflecting network-accessible, unauthenticated exploitation with full impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
A remote attacker can supply a crafted newap_text_0 parameter to trigger the overflow and execute arbitrary code on the affected device without requiring credentials or user interaction.
Public references consist of proof-of-concept repositories and gists that demonstrate the issue; no vendor advisories or official patches are referenced in the available data. The EPSS score rose from a low baseline to a peak of 0.1149 on 2026-05-30 before receding to the current value of 0.0634, indicating a period of increased exploitation interest after disclosure.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-11475
Vulnerability details
Buffer Overflow vulnerability in ALFA_CAMPRO-co-2.29 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via the newap_text_0 key value
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Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
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.
Platform-independent managed code eliminates the need for unchecked native buffer copies that are the root cause of classic buffer overflows.