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CVE-2024-0217

14
FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-0217 is a low-severity use-after-free vulnerability affecting PackageKitd in Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This flaw can lead to memory access on previously freed regions due to cleanup timing issues during transactions. While the potential impact is limited to a denial of service (availability), the attack complexity is low, requiring local access and low privileges. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.2.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:packagekit_project:packagekit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
39CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:39:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

3.3LOW

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.23%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
13.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0023 is in the 56th percentile among its peer group of 1,511 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: PackageKit
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: PackageKit

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2024-0217Low

PackageKitd: Use-After-Free in Idle Function Callback

Jan 3, 2024

References

access.redhat.com / security/cve/CVE-2024-0217
MitigationThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / PackageKit/PackageKit/commit/64278c9127e3333342b56ead99556161f7e86f79
Patch