Vulnerability · Published Jan 8, 2025 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2024-51442

High 8.8

In plain English

A high-severity command injection in the minidlna package (Debian). Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 2.3% (higher than 84% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)8.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)2.3%top 16.3% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack tooling1Public PoC

Official description

Command Injection in Minidlna version v1.3.3 and before allows an attacker to execute arbitrary OS commands via a specially crafted minidlna.conf configuration file.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12minidlnano fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2024-51442
Debian:13minidlnano fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2024-51442
Debian:14minidlnano fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2024-51442
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSminidlnano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-51442
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSminidlnano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-51442
Ubuntu:25.10minidlnano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-51442
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSminidlnano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-51442
Ubuntu:26.10minidlnano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-51442

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a n/a n/a

Weakness: CWE-77 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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