CVE-2024-42383

9.8 criticalEPSS 0.3%

Critical (9.8) in cesanta mongoose. EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset vulnerability in Cesanta Mongoose Web Server v7.14 allows to write a NULL byte value beyond the memory space dedicated for the hostname field.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 21% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-823
Published: 2024-11-18
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

cesanta:mongoose

References

https://www.nozominetworks.com/labs/vulnerability-advisories-cve-2024-42383

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