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CVE-2024-42642

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.7 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2024-09-04 · updated 2026-07-05
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

Micron Crucial MX500 Series Solid State Drives M3CR046 is vulnerable to Buffer Overflow, which can be triggered by sending specially crafted ATA packets from the host to the drive controller. NOTE: The supplier states that this vulnerability was fully remediated in December 2024 and that updated firmware is available through Crucial’s official support page.

Affected products

• Crucial Mx500 Firmware: m3cr046

References

• https://github.com/VL4DR/CVE-2024-42642/tree/main
• https://www.crucial.com/support/ssd-support/mx500-support

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