CVE-2024-56072

An issue was discovered in FastNetMon Community Edition through 1.2.7. The sFlow v5 plugin allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet that specifies many sFlow samples.

Published: 2024-12-15 Last update: 2025-06-20 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2024-56072 is rated Moderate Risk (55.1/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.74%). Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2024-56072

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 2026-02-07 1.00% 0.74% -0.26%
2 2026-02-04 0.47% 1.00% +0.53%
3 2026-01-23 0.47%

Full EPSS history (11 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2024-56072

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.5 3.1 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
3.9 3.6 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2024-56072

OS Trackers for CVE-2024-56072

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2024-56072 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (fastnetmon), 4 status rows across 4 suites (bookworm, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 4. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-56072
ubuntu medium CVE-2024-56072 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (fastnetmon), 8 status rows across 8 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, upstream): needs-triage 5, ignored 2, DNE 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-56072

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2024-56072

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
pavel-odintsov fastnetmon <= 1.2.7 cpe:2.3:a:pavel-odintsov:fastnetmon:*:*:*:*:ce:*:*:*

References for CVE-2024-56072

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