CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2024-39590 — Openplcproject Openplc V3 Firmware security vulnerability

High CVSS 7.5

Multiple invalid pointer dereference vulnerabilities exist in the OpenPLC Runtime EtherNet/IP parser functionality of OpenPLC_v3 16bf8bac1a36d95b73e7b8722d0edb8b9c5bb56a. A specially crafted EtherNet/IP request can lead to denial of service. An attacker can send a series of EtherNet/IP requests to trigger these vulnerabilities.This instance of the vulnerability occurs within the `Protected_Logical_Write_Reply` function

Severity
High
CVSS
7.5 (3.1)
Published
2024-09-18
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system
Weaknesses
CWE-704

Affected products

  • openplcproject / openplc_v3_firmware / 2024-05-28

Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

Complete CVE record and remediation plan

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