What is CVE-2024-29937?

CVE-2024-29937 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Freebsd, classified under Code Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2024-04-11.

How severe is CVE-2024-29937?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-29937 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

RCE in Freebsd

CVE-2024-29937

NFS in a BSD derived codebase, as used in OpenBSD through 7.4 and FreeBSD through 14.0-RELEASE, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a bug that is unrelated to memory corruption.

Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)

EPSS: 0.018 (75.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Freebsd — versions 14.0
Openbsd
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-94 — Code Injection

Public proof-of-concept exploits

NaInSec/CVE-LIST

References

cve@mitre.org (Broken Link)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit)
cve@mitre.org (Not Applicable)
cve@mitre.org (Not Applicable)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-29937?: CVE-2024-29937 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Freebsd, classified under Code Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2024-04-11.
How severe is CVE-2024-29937?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-29937 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.