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The SonicWall Capture Labs threat research team became aware of the threat CVE-2024-20017, assessed its impact and developed mitigation measures for the vulnerability. CVE-2024-20017 is a critical zero-click vulnerability with a CVSS 3.0 score of 9.8, impacting MediaTek Wi-Fi chipsets MT7622/MT7915 and RTxxxx SoftAP driver bundles used in products from various manufacturers, including Ubiquiti, Xiaomi and Netgear. The affected versions include MediaTek SDK versions 7.4.0.1 and earlier, as well as OpenWrt 19.07 and 21.02. This translates to a large variety of vulnerable devices, including routers and smartphones. The flaw allows remote code execution without user interaction due to an out-of-bounds write issue. MediaTek has released patches to mitigate the vulnerability and users should update their devices immediately. While this vulnerability was published and patched back in March, only recently did a public PoC become available making exploitation more likely.

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[-] felixwhynot@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Dang it now I have to update OpenWrt

[-] taaz@biglemmowski.win 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Wohoo time to hack this old phone of mine. (for the interested, I've found CVE-2024-31317 which is easier but should get only system user/uid 1000)

[-] seaQueue@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Or you could use mtkclient and do the job much more efficiently by going after the bootrom instead

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