CVE-2024-25177

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-25177 is a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability affecting LuaJIT through version 2.1 and OpenRusty luajit2 before v2.1-20240314, stemming from an unsinking of IR_FSTORE for NULL metatable. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), this vulnerability can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity and no user interaction, leading to a complete loss of availability. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:luajit:luajit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.46%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
37.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0046 is in the 16th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 20330-17086Fixed in: 2.1.0-28
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 luajit 2.1.0-27 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 2.1.0-28
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1Fixed in: luajit
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18.0Fixed in: luajit

Vendor Advisories (2)

microsoft2025-Jul/CVE-2024-25177Important

LuaJIT through 2.1 and OpenRusty luajit2 before v2.1-20240314 have an unsinking of IR_FSTORE for NULL metatable, which leads to Denial of Service (DoS).

Jul 8, 2025
redhatCVE-2024-25177Low

luajit: Out of bounds read in LuaJIT

Jul 7, 2025

References

lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2025/08/msg00022.html
gist.github.com / pwnhacker0x18/a73f560d79f2c3d4011d6c5a2676f04a
Third Party Advisory
github.com / LuaJIT/LuaJIT/commit/85b4fed0b0353dd78c8c875c2f562d522a2b310f
Patch
github.com / LuaJIT/LuaJIT/issues/1147
ExploitIssue Tracking
github.com / openresty/luajit2/commit/85b4fed0b0353dd78c8c875c2f562d522a2b310f