CVE-2023-25642 Two Vulnerabilities in Some ZTE Mobile Internet Products
An authenticated attacker can cause a denial of service via buffer overflow in ZTE mobile internet products due to insufficient TCP port validation.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2023-25642?
CVE-2023-25642 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in ZTE MC801A, published on 14 Dec 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
There is a buffer overflow vulnerability in some ZTE mobile internet producsts. Due to insufficient validation of tcp port parameter, an authenticated attacker could use the vulnerability to perform a denial of service attack.
Weakness: CWE-120
Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-25642?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Zte Mc801a1 Firmware, Zte Mc801a Firmware.
How do I fix CVE-2023-25642?
No fix has been published for CVE-2023-25642 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2023-25642 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-25642 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in ZTE MC801A
Sources
Also known as GHSA-q3f5-cm95-p5vp.