Medium
Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset in Mongoose Web Server library
Type: advisorySources: OSV
Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset vulnerability in Cesanta Mongoose Web Server v7.14 allows an attacker to send an unexpected TLS packet and force the application to read unintended heap memory space.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2024-42388
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 3 Nov 2026, 06:30 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset in Mongoose Web Server library
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 18 Nov 2024, 09:06 UTC
Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset vulnerability in Cesanta Mongoose Web Server v7.14 allows an attacker to send an unexpected TLS packet and force the application to read unintended heap memory space.
osv:CVE-2024-42388
Complete source record
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