PT-2024-29918 · Cesanta · Cesanta Mongoose Web Server

Gabriele Quagliarella · CVE-2024-42391 · Published 2024-11-18 · Updated 2024-11-19

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Cesanta Mongoose Web Server version 7.14

Description The issue allows an attacker to send an unexpected TLS packet, forcing the application to read unintended heap memory space due to an out-of-range pointer offset.

Recommendations For Cesanta Mongoose Web Server version 7.14, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-823

Related Identifiers

CVE-2024-42391

Affected Products

Cesanta Mongoose Web Server

References · 8

• 🔥 https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/42xxx/CVE-2024-42391.json · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-42391 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-42391 · Security Note
• https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose · Note
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1858514188986904905 · Twitter Post
• https://nozominetworks.com/labs/vulnerability-advisories-cve-2024-42391 · Note
• https://t.me/cvedetector/11308 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1858445666327871916 · Twitter Post