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CVE-2024-44945

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-44945 is a high-severity vulnerability in the Linux kernel's netfilter component, specifically affecting the initialization of 'extack' during ACKs for BATCH_BEGIN and BATCH_END operations. With a CVSS score of 7.8, this local vulnerability (AV:L) allows an attacker with low privileges (PR:L) to achieve high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts (C:H/I:H/A:H) with low attack complexity (AC:L). Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 6.10, < 6.10.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.11:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.11:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.11:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.21%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
10.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0021 is in the 38th percentile among its peer group of 17,070 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2024-44945Moderate

kernel: netfilter: nfnetlink: Initialise extack before use in ACKs

Aug 31, 2024

References

git.kernel.org / stable/c/3e03b536d9454c5802168b9e85248d456d3ff6a3
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/d1a7b382a9d3f0f3e5a80e0be2991c075fa4f618
Patch