CVE-2024-53141

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Important Important Impact What does this mean?
7 CVSS v3 Base Score

Description

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: ipset: add missing range check in bitmap_ip_uadt When tb[IPSET_ATTR_IP_TO] is not present but tb[IPSET_ATTR_CIDR] exists, the values of ip and ip_to are slightly swapped. Therefore, the range check for ip should be done later, but this part is missing and it seems that the vulnerability occurs. So we should add missing range checks and remove unnecessary range checks.

Statement

For the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, the vulnerability fixed starting from the 9.6 version.

The attack complexity is High, because existing reproducer doesn't work for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (any version) or Fedora (latest version) or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 (latest version). It would require some complex tuning before potentially could be used with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. For the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 please use mitigation and for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 (or Fedora) update to latest version.

Only local users with CAP_NET_ADMIN capability or root can trigger this issue. On Red Hat Enterprise Linux, local unprivileged users can exploit unprivileged user namespaces (CONFIG_USER_NS) to grant themselves this capability.

The OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) control planes or master machines are based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) that consists primarily of RHEL components, therefore, it is also affected by this kernel vulnerability. A successful exploit needs necessary privileges (CAP_NET_ADMIN) and direct, local access. A local user in RHCOS is already a root with full permissions, hence existence of this vulnerability does not bring any value from the potential attacker perspective. From the OpenShift containers perspective, this vulnerability cannot be exploited as in OpenShift the cluster processes on the node are namespaced, which means that switching the namespace in the running OpenShift container will not bring necessary capabilities. This means that for OpenShift, the impact of this vulnerability is Low.

Similar to the CVE-2023-32233 vulnerability, this has been explained in the following blog post as an example of a "Container escape vulnerability": This content is not included.https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/containers-vulnerability-risk-assessment

Mitigation

In order to trigger the issue, it requires the ability to create user/net namespaces.

On non-containerized deployments of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, it is recommended to disable user namespaces by setting user.max_user_namespaces to 0:

# echo "user.max_user_namespaces=0" > /etc/sysctl.d/userns.conf
# sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.d/userns.conf

On containerized deployments, such as Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, do not use this mitigation as the functionality is needed to be enabled.

Additional Information

External References

Content from www.cve.org is not included.https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-53141

Content from nvd.nist.gov is not included.https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-53141

Content from lore.kernel.org is not included.https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024120606-CVE-2024-53141-195b@gregkh/T

Affected Packages and Issued Red Hat Security Errata

Products / Services Components State Errata
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 kernel Out of support scope
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support kernel-rt Fixed RHSA-2025:7732
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support kernel Fixed RHSA-2025:7898
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Advanced Update Support kernel Fixed RHSA-2025:7899
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 kernel Fixed RHSA-2025:7531
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 kernel-rt Fixed RHSA-2025:7532
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 kpatch-patch Fixed RHSA-2025:8345
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support kernel Fixed RHSA-2025:7675
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support kernel Fixed RHSA-2025:7901
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Telecommunications Update Service kernel Fixed RHSA-2025:7901
Unless explicitly stated as not affected, all previous versions of packages in any minor update stream of a product listed here should be assumed vulnerable, although may not have been subject to full analysis.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details

Important note

CVSS scores for open source components depend on vendor-specific factors (e.g. version or build chain). Therefore, Red Hat's score and impact rating can be different from NVD and other vendors. Red Hat remains the authoritative CVE Naming Authorities (CNA) source for its products and services (see Red Hat classifications ).

CVSS v3 Score Breakdown Red Hat NVD
CVSS v3 Base Score 7 7.8
Attack Vector Local Local
Attack Complexity High Low
Privileges Required Low Low
User Interaction None None
Scope Unchanged Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High High
Integrity Impact High High
Availability Impact High High

CVSS v3 Vector

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

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

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