CVE-2024-42390 (GCVE-0-2024-42390)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-11-18 09:06 – Updated: 2024-11-18 13:36
VLAI
Title
Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset in Mongoose Web Server library
Summary
Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset vulnerability in Cesanta Mongoose Web Server v7.14 allows an attacker to send an unexpected TLS packet and force the application to read unintended heap memory space.
Severity
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-823 - Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Cesanta Mongoose Web Server Affected: 0 , ≤ 7.14 (semver)
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Credits
Gabriele Quagliarella
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