CVE-2024-52065 Memory corruption in Connext Professional

Medium 6.9 Published Updated

Attacker can trigger stack buffer overflow via malicious environment variables in RTI Connext Professional Persistence Service on non-Windows systems.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2024-52065?

CVE-2024-52065 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 on non-Windows (Persistence Service) allows Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables.This issue affects Connext Professional: from 7.0.0 before 7.3.0.2, from 6.1.1.2 before 6.1.2.21, from 5.3.1.40 before 5.3.1.41.

Weakness: CWE-787, CWE-120

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-52065?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Rti Connext Professional.

How do I fix CVE-2024-52065?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-52065 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-2024-52065 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-52065 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-2m3m-xv57-xrmm.

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