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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.9

CVE-2024-38268 json

An improper restriction of operations within the bounds of a memory buffer in the MAC address parser of the Zyxel VMG8825-T50K firmware ver…

published 2024-09-24 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-37233

cvss
4.9
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 37%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An improper restriction of operations within the bounds of a memory buffer in the MAC address parser of the Zyxel VMG8825-T50K firmware versions through 5.50(ABOM.8)C0 could allow an authenticated attacker with administrator privileges to cause potential memory corruptions, resulting in a thread crash on an affected device.

Patch / fix

  • zyxel wx5600-t0_firmware 5.70\(aceb.3.2\)c0
  • zyxel wx3401-b0_firmware 5.17\(abve.2.5\)c0
  • zyxel wx3100-t0_firmware 5.50\(abvl.4.3\)c0
  • zyxel scr50axe_firmware 1.10\(acgn.3\)c0
  • zyxel px3321-t1_firmware 5.44\(acjb.1\)c0
  • zyxel pm7300-t0_firmware 5.42\(abyy.2.2\)c0
  • zyxel pm5100-t0_firmware 5.42\(acbf.2.1\)c0
  • zyxel pm3100-t0_firmware 5.42\(acbf.2.1\)c0
  • zyxel ax7501-b1_firmware 5.17\(abpc.5.2\)c0
  • zyxel vmg8825-t50k_firmware 5.50\(abom.8.4\)c0
  • zyxel vmg8623-t50b_firmware 5.50\(abpm.9.2\)c0
  • zyxel vmg4005-b60a_firmware 5.17\(abqa.2.2\)c0
  • zyxel vmg4005-b50a_firmware 5.17\(abqa.2.2\)c0
  • zyxel vmg3927-t50k_firmware 5.50\(abom.8.4\)c0
  • zyxel vmg3625-t50b_firmware 5.50\(abpm.9.2\)c0
  • zyxel emg5723-t50k_firmware 5.50\(abom.8.4\)c0
  • zyxel emg5523-t50b_firmware 5.50\(abpm.9.2\)c0
  • zyxel emg3525-t50b_firmware 5.50\(abpm.9.2\)c0
  • zyxel ex7710-b0_firmware 5.18\(acak.1\)c1
  • zyxel ex7501-b0_firmware 5.18\(achn.1.2\)c0

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 37% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 4.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Zyxel VMG8825-T50K firmware

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.