CVE-2024-25004 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

KiTTY versions 0.76.1.13 and before is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow via the username, occurs due to insufficient bounds checking and input sanitization (at line 2600). This allows an attacker to overwrite adjacent memory, which leads to arbitrary code execution.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
9bis	Kitty

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:9bis:kitty:*:*:*:*:*:windows:*:*

No data.

References

Link	Providers
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/177031/KiTTY-0.76.1.13-Command-Injection.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/177032/KiTTY-0.76.1.13-Buffer-Overflows.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Feb/13
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Feb/14
https://blog.defcesco.io/CVE-2024-25003-CVE-2024-25004

History

Thu, 15 May 2025 20:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2024-02-09T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-05-15T19:40:29.040Z

Reserved: 2024-02-02T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2024-25004

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T23:36:21.483Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-02-09T07:16:00.930

Modified: 2025-05-15T20:15:48.197

Link: CVE-2024-25004

Redhat

No data.

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