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CVE-2024-10037: hitachi energy rtu500 NULL Pointer Dereference

CVSS: 5.9v4.0MediumDeferred
Published 25-03-2025Last modified 31-03-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-10037 is a medium (CVSS 5.9) NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in hitachi energy rtu500. EPSS estimates a 0.35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 26.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
24/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.9/10
010
Medium · v4.0 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.35%
0%100%
Low · +0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 25-03-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 31-03-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A vulnerability exists in the RTU500 web server component that can cause a denial of service to the RTU500 CMU application if a specially crafted message sequence is executed on a WebSocket connection. An attacker must be properly authenticated and the test mode function of RTU500 must be enabled to exploit this vulnerability. The affected CMU will automatically recover itself if an attacker successfully exploits this vulnerability.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.35%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

27%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.01 pp

From 0.33% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
0.35%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Hitachi energy1 product
  • rtu500≥ 12.0.1, ≤ 12.0.14 | ≥ 12.2.1, ≤ 12.2.12 | ≥ 12.4.1, ≤ 12.4.11 | ≥ 12.6.1, ≤ 12.6.10 | ≥ 12.7.1, ≤ 12.7.7 | ≥ 13.2.1, ≤ 13.2.7 | ≥ 13.4.1, ≤ 13.4.4 | ≥ 13.5.1, ≤ 13.5.3 | 13.6.1

1 vendor · 1 product

References

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