CVE-2024-21846Electrolink FM/DAB/TV Transmitter Missing Authentication for Critical Function
- 6.9MediumCVSS base score
- 0.46%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 59% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
An unauthenticated attacker can reset the board and stop transmitter operations by sending a specially-crafted GET request to the command.cgi gateway, resulting in a denial-of-service scenario.
Timeline
ID reserved
By icscert
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| icscertCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | Medium6.9 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| icscertCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 4.0 | Medium6.9 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.46% · top 59% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.9.
Affected products
Electrolink · Compact DAB Transmitter
- affected 10W
- affected 100W
- affected 250W
Electrolink · Medium DAB Transmitter
- affected 500W
- affected 1kW
- affected 2kW
Electrolink · High Power DAB Transmitter
- affected 2.5kW
- affected 3kW
- affected 4kW
- affected 5kW
Electrolink · Compact FM Transmitter
- affected Compact FM Transmitter
- affected 500W
- affected 1kW
- affected 2kW
Electrolink · Modular FM Transmitter
- affected 3kW
- affected 5kW
- affected 10kW
- affected 15kW
- affected 20kW
- affected 30kW
Electrolink · Digital FM Transmitter
- affected 15W – ≤ 40kW
Electrolink · VHF TV Transmitter
- affected BI
- affected BIII
Electrolink · UHF TV Transmitter
- affected 10W – ≤ 5kW
What to do
Workaround: Electrolink has not responded to requests to work with CISA to mitigate these vulnerabilities. Users of the affected products are encouraged to contact Electrolink https://electrolink.com/contacts/ for additional information.
References
References1
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2024-19458 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2024-21846)Record last updated .