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Heap-based Buffer Overflow

CVE-2025-50617

High
7.5/10

Summary

A buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in Netis WF2880 v2.1.40207 in the FUN_0046ed68 function of the cgitest.cgi file. Attackers can trigger this vulnerability by controlling the value of wps_set in the payload, which can cause the program to crash and potentially lead to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack.

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

CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow

A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().

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  • Published