# CVE-2024-52064: Potential stack buffer write overflow in Connext applications while parsing malicious license file

> Attackers can trigger a stack buffer overflow in RTI Connext Professional by providing a malicious license file, potentially leading to code execution or crashes.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.9 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 13 Dec 2024
- **Updated:** 7 Feb 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-r83p-g228-gq84

## What is CVE-2024-52064?

CVE-2024-52064 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in RTI Connext Professional, published on 13 Dec 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow') vulnerability in RTI Connext Professional (Core Libraries) allows Overflow Variables and Tags.This issue affects Connext Professional: from 7.0.0 before 7.3.0.2, from 6.1.0 before 6.1.2.21, from 6.0.0 before 6.0.1.40, from 5.0.0 before 5.3.1.45.

Weakness: CWE-787 (Out-of-bounds Write), CWE-120 (Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-52064?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Rti Connext Professional.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-52064?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-52064 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-52064 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-52064 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in RTI Connext Professional

- [CVE-2026-2467](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-2467/): Memory corruption in Connext Professional (critical 9.2)
- [CVE-2026-3894](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-3894/): Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability in RTI Connext Professional (Core Libraries) allows Overread Buffers. (critical 9.2)
- [CVE-2024-52057](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-52057/): SQL injection in Connext Professional (critical 9.1)
- [CVE-2026-7300](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-7300/): Memory corruption in Connext Professional (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2025-14543](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-14543/): XML external entity in Connext Professional (high 8.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-52064 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-52064 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in RTI Connext Professional, published on 13 Dec 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-52064 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: RTI Connext Professional. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-52064/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-52064/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-52064
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-52064
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-52064

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-52064/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.