Vulnerability · Published Sep 16, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2024-45415

Critical 9.8

In plain English

A critical-severity stack buffer overflow in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 42% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)9.8Critical

Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 58.2% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

The HTTPD binary in multiple ZTE routers has a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in check_data_integrity function. This function is responsible for validating the checksum of data in post request. The checksum is sent encrypted in the request, the function decrypts it and stores the checksum on the stack without validating it. An unauthenticated attacker can get RCE as root by exploiting this vulnerability.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

Weakness: CWE-121 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

https://wr3nchsr.github.io/zte-multiple-routers-httpd-vulnerabilities-advisory/