Device crash via invalid billboard message bounds
Published Feb 11, 2024 · Updated Mar 11, 2025
Buffer overflow in Badge.Team Hacker Hotel Badge 2024 0.1.0 through 0.1.3 allows attackers to crash badges via billboard broadcasts. The billboard message handler applies invalid bounds checking to broadcast data, allowing an oversized message to overflow a buffer. The attack requires nearby network access to broadcast a billboard message; the demonstrated consequence is a badge crash.
Summary
What happened
Buffer overflow in Badge.Team Hacker Hotel Badge 2024 0.1.0 through 0.1.3 allows attackers to crash badges via billboard broadcasts. The billboard message handler applies invalid bounds checking to broadcast data, allowing an oversized message to overflow a buffer. The attack requires nearby network access to broadcast a billboard message; the demonstrated consequence is a badge crash.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-21875
- Published
- Feb 11, 2024
- Updated
- Mar 11, 2025
- Vendor
- Badge.Team
- Product
- Hacker Hotel Badge 2024
- Classifications
- CWE-770, CAPEC-125, T1499
- Attack vector
- adjacent
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Feb 11, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Mar 11, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=0.1.0 <=0.1.3
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Attacks
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Weakness, pattern, technique
Public exploit references
- Billboard broadcast denial-of-service demonstrationproof of concept · demonstrated
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