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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
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