CVE-2024-8422: schneider electric zelio soft 2 Use After Free

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-8422 is a high (CVSS 7.8) Use After Free vulnerability in schneider electric zelio soft 2. EPSS estimates a 0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 10.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 08-10-2024
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 08-10-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

CWE-416: Use After Free vulnerability exists that could cause arbitrary code execution, denial of service and loss of confidentiality & integrity when application user opens a malicious Zelio Soft 2 project file.

• CWE-416Use After FreeThe product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.