CVE-2025-4496
Published: 10 May 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-4496 is a high-severity Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer (CWE-119) vulnerability in Totolink A3000Ru Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 8.7 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 28.9% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-14220
Vulnerability details
A vulnerability was found in TOTOLINK T10, A3100R, A950RG, A800R, N600R, A3000RU and A810R 4.1.8cu.5241_B20210927. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects the function CloudACMunualUpdate of the file /cgi-bin/cstecgi.cgi. The manipulation of the argument FileName leads to buffer…
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overflow. The attack can be initiated remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Buffer overflow in public-facing router web CGI (/cgi-bin/cstecgi.cgi CloudACMunualUpdate) enables remote exploitation of public-facing applications (T1190), remote services (T1210), and application-level denial of service (T1499.004).
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.
Managed runtimes used by platform-independent applications (e.g., JVM, CLR) enforce memory safety, preventing most buffer overflows that require direct memory manipulation.
Ongoing control assessments and code testing (static/dynamic analysis, fuzzing) surface memory buffer restriction failures, which are then remediated before release.
Memory protections (e.g., W^X, ASLR) make exploitation of buffer-boundary violations far harder to turn into code execution.
Detects exploitation attempts that produce memory corruption, crashes, or anomalous behavior.