8.2High
Cesanta Mongoose
CVE-2024-42386
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 produce a segmentation fault on the application.
What this means for your business
- It affects Cesanta Mongoose. It matters if your company, or a supplier that handles your data, runs it.
- An attacker can use it remotely, over a network, without a login, and without anyone at your company clicking anything.
- FIRST's prediction model gives it a 0.4% chance of attack attempts being seen in the next 30 days, ranking above 30% of all known flaws.
What to do
- 1Check whether your company or your suppliers run Cesanta Mongoose, and which version. The affected versions are listed further down this page.
- 2If you do, follow the vendor's guidance. No patch reference has been published yet.
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Scoring
- CVSS
- 8.2 (v3.1)
- Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H- Weakness
- CWE-823
- Assigned by
- prodsec@nozominetworks.com
Dates
- Published
- 2024-11-18
- Last modified
- 2026-09-08
- Sources
- NVD
Affected products
- Cesanta Mongoose- 7.14
As listed in the NVD configuration data. Not a statement about your estate.