CVE-2024-24946: Automationdirect p1-540 Firmware

High severity, CVSS 8.2. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the Programming Software Connection CurrDir functionality of AutomationDirect P3-550E 1.2.10.9. A specially crafted network packet can lead to denial of service. An attacker can send an unauthenticated packet to trigger these vulnerability.This CVE tracks the heap corruption that occurs at offset `0xb686c` of version 1.2.10.9 of the P3-550E firmware, which occurs when a call to `memset` relies on an attacker-controlled length value and corrupts any trailing heap allocations.

Affected products

• Automationdirect p1-540 Firmware: version 1.2.10.10 only; version 4.1.1.10 only
• Automationdirect p1-550 Firmware: version 1.2.10.10 only; version 4.1.1.10 only
• Automationdirect p2-550 Firmware: version 1.2.10.10 only; version 4.1.1.10 only
• Automationdirect p3-530 Firmware: version 1.2.10.9 only; version 4.1.1.10 only
• Automationdirect p3-550 Firmware: version 1.2.10.9 only; version 4.1.1.10 only
• Automationdirect p3-550e Firmware: version 1.2.10.9 only; version 4.1.1.10 only

Published 2024-05-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.