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CVE-2024-43841

13
FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-43841 is a low-severity vulnerability in the Linux kernel's virt_wifi driver. It arises when the driver incorrectly reports a successful Wi-Fi connection even if the user-provided SSID differs from the advertised one, leading to a warning but no direct functional impact. With a CVSS score of 3.3 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N), it requires local access and has no confidentiality, integrity, or availability impact. There is currently no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 5.0, < 6.1.103CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 6.2, < 6.6.44CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 6.7, < 6.10.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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:L/A:N

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.21%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
11.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0021 is in the 51st 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 (6)

codesyspatch availablevia llm_extracted
View patch
esphomepatch availablevia llm_extracted
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 17110-16823Fixed in: 5.15.176.3-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 19682-17086
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 kernel 5.15.176.3-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 5.15.176.3-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 kernel 5.15.182.1-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0

Vendor Advisories (4)

codesysllm-codesys-fe85e88fbae25bb9CRITICAL

HP ThinPro 8.1 SP7 Security Updates

Jun 3, 2025
esphomellm-esphome-ed450ce9fd6a7380CRITICAL

HP ThinPro 8.1 SP7 Security Updates

Jun 3, 2025
redhatCVE-2024-43841Moderate

kernel: wifi: virt_wifi: avoid reporting connection success with wrong SSID

Aug 17, 2024
microsoft2024-Aug/CVE-2024-43841Low

wifi: virt_wifi: avoid reporting connection success with wrong SSID

Aug 13, 2024

References

git.kernel.org / stable/c/05c4488a0e446c6ccde9f22b573950665e1cd414
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/36e92b5edc8e0daa18e9325674313802ce3fbc29
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/416d3c1538df005195721a200b0371d39636e05d
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/93e898a264b4e0a475552ba9f99a016eb43ef942
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/994fc2164a03200c3bf42fb45b3d49d9d6d33a4d
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/b5d14b0c6716fad7f0c94ac6e1d6f60a49f985c7
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/d3cc85a10abc8eae48988336cdd3689ab92581b3
Patch
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2024/10/msg00003.html
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html