A memory leak issue discovered in parseSWF_FREECHARACTER in libming v0.4.8 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted SWF file.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2024-24148 is rated High Exploit Risk (64.8/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.34%). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.
Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.
| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ |
EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2025-04-17 | 0.15% | 0.34% | +0.19% |
| 2 | 2025-04-15 | 0.29% | 0.15% | -0.14% |
| 3 | 2025-03-30 | — | 0.29% | — |
Full EPSS history (6 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.5 | 3.1 | HIGH |
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3.9 | 3.6 | 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
ubuntu
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low | CVE-2024-24148 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (ming), 11 status rows across 11 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 8, needs-triage 2, ignored 1. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-24148 |
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/libming/libming/issues/308 | Exploit Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory |