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Vulnerability · Published Jul 7, 2025 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2024-25176

Critical 9.8

In plain English

A critical-severity stack buffer overflow in the luajit package (Alpine). Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 49% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)9.8Critical
Exploit odds (30 days)0.6%top 51.2% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

LuaJIT through 2.1 and OpenRusty luajit2 before v2.1-20240626 have a stack-buffer-overflow in lj_strfmt_wfnum in lj_strfmt_num.c.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine:v3.20luajit2.1_p20240815-r1ALPINE-CVE-2024-25176
Alpine:v3.21luajit2.1_p20240815-r1ALPINE-CVE-2024-25176
Alpine:v3.22luajit2.1_p20240815-r1ALPINE-CVE-2024-25176
Alpine:v3.23luajit2.1_p20240815-r1ALPINE-CVE-2024-25176
Alpine:v3.24luajit2.1_p20240815-r1ALPINE-CVE-2024-25176
Debian:12luajit2.1.0~beta3+git20220320+dfsg-4.1+deb12u1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-25176
Debian:13luajit2.1.0+openresty20240314-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-25176
Debian:14luajit2.1.0+openresty20240314-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-25176
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSluajit2.1.0~beta3+dfsg-6ubuntu0.1USN-8544-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSluajit2.1.0~beta3+dfsg-6ubuntu0.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-25176
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSluajit2.1.0+git20231223.c525bcb+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-25176
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSluajit2.1.0+git20231223.c525bcb+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1USN-8544-1
Ubuntu:25.10luajitno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-25176
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSluajitno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-25176
Ubuntu:26.10luajitno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-25176

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a n/a n/a

Weakness: CWE-121 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References