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Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CVE-2024-10498

Medium
6.9/10

Summary

CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability exists that could allow an unauthorized attacker to modify configuration values outside of the normal range when the attacker sends specific Modbus write packets to the device which could result in invalid data or loss of web interface functionality.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • LOW
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • LOW

CWE-119 - Buffer Overflow

Buffer overflow attacks involve data transit and operations exceeding the restricted memory buffer, thereby corrupting or overwriting data in adjacent memory locations. Such overflow allows the attacker to run arbitrary code or manipulate the existing code to cause privilege escalation, data breach, denial of service, system crash and even complete system compromise. Given that languages such as C and C++ lack default safeguards against overwriting or accessing data in their memory, applications utilizing these languages are most susceptible to buffer overflows attacks.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published