CVE-2024-14036
DoS on Dräger Core/M540 via crafted SDC during discovery
Is CVE-2024-14036 being exploited?
Not confirmed. CVE-2024-14036 does not appear in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, which records only exploitation that has been observed and reported publicly. That is evidence of absence of a report, not evidence the flaw is unattacked. EPSS currently estimates a 0.28% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.
How severe is CVE-2024-14036?
CVE-2024-14036 is rated High with a CVSS score of 8.7. Severity describes how bad exploitation would be, not how likely it is: pair it with exploitation evidence before deciding what to patch first.
Is there a patch for CVE-2024-14036?
Not known from our data. No patch reference has been recorded for CVE-2024-14036, which is not the same as no patch existing — a fix may have shipped without a tagged reference, or after this record was written. The vendor advisory is the only authority on whether a fix exists, and mitigations may be available regardless.
What does CVE-2024-14036 affect?
CVE-2024-14036 affects Dräger Core 1.0.5, Dräger M540 Converter Service 1.0.9. Confirm the exact affected versions against the vendor advisory before deciding you are exposed.
What should I do about CVE-2024-14036?
Update when fix released; limit SDC exposure; monitor CPU load
Exploitation status reflects CISA's KEV catalog as we last synced it. Check the catalog directly.
Network-adjacent attacker can exhaust CPU via malformed SDC messages, causing discovery service to stall.
Patch when possible
- affected<= 1.0.5
- affected<= 1.0.9
As published in the CVE Program record. A version outside these ranges is not a statement that it is unaffected — vendors sometimes understate a range, and distribution-backported builds carry upstream numbers that do not reflect what was patched into them.