CWE-121
AllowedStack-based Buffer Overflow
Abstraction: Variant · Status: Draft
A stack-based buffer overflow condition is a condition where the buffer being overwritten is allocated on the stack (i.e., is a local variable or, rarely, a parameter to a function).
5221 vulnerabilities reference this CWE, most recent first.
GHSA-XXVW-6QQH-QRJJ
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-03-20 21:31 – Updated: 2025-03-21 18:31Tenda W18E v2.0 v16.01.0.11 was discovered to contain a stack overflow in the wifiSSID parameter at /goform/setModules. This vulnerability allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted POST request.
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"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2025-29217"
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"CWE-121"
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"nvd_published_at": "2025-03-20T19:15:37Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
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"details": "Tenda W18E v2.0 v16.01.0.11 was discovered to contain a stack overflow in the wifiSSID parameter at /goform/setModules. This vulnerability allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted POST request.",
"id": "GHSA-xxvw-6qqh-qrjj",
"modified": "2025-03-21T18:31:35Z",
"published": "2025-03-20T21:31:46Z",
"references": [
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"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-29217"
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"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://gist.github.com/isstabber/d170f68bd85ed97e66ff316e57634b99"
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"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://www.tenda.com.cn"
},
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"type": "WEB",
"url": "http://w18e.com"
}
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"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
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"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
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Mitigation MIT-10
Strategy: Environment Hardening
- Use automatic buffer overflow detection mechanisms that are offered by certain compilers or compiler extensions. Examples include: the Microsoft Visual Studio /GS flag, Fedora/Red Hat FORTIFY_SOURCE GCC flag, StackGuard, and ProPolice, which provide various mechanisms including canary-based detection and range/index checking.
- D3-SFCV (Stack Frame Canary Validation) from D3FEND [REF-1334] discusses canary-based detection in detail.
Mitigation
Use an abstraction library to abstract away risky APIs. Not a complete solution.
Mitigation
Implement and perform bounds checking on input.
Mitigation
Do not use dangerous functions such as gets. Use safer, equivalent functions which check for boundary errors.
Mitigation MIT-11
Strategy: Environment Hardening
- Run or compile the software using features or extensions that randomly arrange the positions of a program's executable and libraries in memory. Because this makes the addresses unpredictable, it can prevent an attacker from reliably jumping to exploitable code.
- Examples include Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) [REF-58] [REF-60] and Position-Independent Executables (PIE) [REF-64]. Imported modules may be similarly realigned if their default memory addresses conflict with other modules, in a process known as "rebasing" (for Windows) and "prelinking" (for Linux) [REF-1332] using randomly generated addresses. ASLR for libraries cannot be used in conjunction with prelink since it would require relocating the libraries at run-time, defeating the whole purpose of prelinking.
- For more information on these techniques see D3-SAOR (Segment Address Offset Randomization) from D3FEND [REF-1335].
No CAPEC attack patterns related to this CWE.