CVE-2024-48984 is a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in MBed OS 6.16.0, specifically within its HCI report parsing software. The flaw arises from improper validation of report lengths, potentially leading to an out-of-bounds write that corrupts subsequent length fields and causes a memcpy operation to overflow its buffer. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable with low attack complexity, allowing for high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or KEV listing, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions, indicating awareness and potential future interest.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
6.16.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:arm:mbed_os:6.16.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.