Vulnerability · Published Aug 24, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2024-45237

Critical 9.8

In plain English

A critical-severity buffer overflow in the fort-validator package (Debian). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 30% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)9.8Critical
Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 70.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

An issue was discovered in Fort before 1.6.3. A malicious RPKI repository that descends from a (trusted) Trust Anchor can serve (via rsync or RRDP) a resource certificate containing a Key Usage extension composed of more than two bytes of data. Fort writes this string into a 2-byte buffer without properly sanitizing its length, leading to a buffer overflow.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12fort-validator1.5.4-1+deb12u1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-45237
Debian:13fort-validator1.6.3-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-45237
Debian:14fort-validator1.6.3-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-45237
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSfort-validator1.5.3-1ubuntu0.1USN-7813-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSfort-validator1.5.3-1ubuntu0.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-45237

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a n/a n/a

Weakness: CWE-120 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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