FKIE_CVE-2024-42390

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-11-18 10:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 07:49
Severity
4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
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.
References
prodsec@nozominetworks.comhttps://www.nozominetworks.com/labs/vulnerability-advisories-cve-2024-42390Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
cesanta mongoose *
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