🛡️ CVE-2024-42383 — mongoose

🟡 CVSS 4.2 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-823 NVD
4.2
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity low, availability low.

Affected software

CVE-2024-42383 is recorded against 1 package.

  • mongoose (fixed in 7.14)

Timeline and source

Published on 18 November 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

www.nozominetworks.com

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 4.2
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
CWE CWE-823
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-11-18
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
mongoose — 7.14

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