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high 7.5

CVE-2024-52949 json

iptraf-ng 1.2.1 has a stack-based buffer overflow.

published 2024-12-16 22 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-46264

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.7%
EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 54%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

iptraf-ng 1.2.1 has a stack-based buffer overflow. In src/ifaces.c, the strcpy function consistently fails to control the size, and it is consequently possible to overflow memory on the stack.

Patch / fix

  • iptraf-ng Debian 14 1:1.2.2-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-52949

  • iptraf-ng RHEL 9 1.2.2-1.el9

red hat advisories RHSA-2025:7064

  • iptraf-ng openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.2.2-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14516-1

  • iptraf-ng AlmaLinux 9 1.2.2-1.el9

almalinux advisories ALSA-2025:7064

  • iptraf-ng Rocky Linux 9 1.2.2-1.el9

rocky linux advisories RLSA-2025:7064

  • iptraf-ng CBL-Mariner 2.0, Azure Linux 3.0 1.2.2-1

azure linux advisories AZL-54386AZL-54389

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-52949 updated cvss 6.6

iptraf-ng: buffer overflow via ifaces.c

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 iptraf-ng Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 iptraf-ng
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9) iptraf-ng 1.2.2-1.el9
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2025:7064
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 iptraf-ng
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
19 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.74% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 54% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • gruppotim.it https://www.gruppotim.it/it/footer/red-team.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input

References

Sources

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