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Vulnerability · Published Oct 27, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2024-50602

Medium 5.9

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in the expat package (AlmaLinux). Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.1% (higher than 66% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code. Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.9Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)1.1%top 33.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack tooling1Public PoC

Official description

An issue was discovered in libexpat before 2.6.4. There is a crash within the XML_ResumeParser function because XML_StopParser can stop/suspend an unstarted parser.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:8expat2.2.5-16.el8_10ALSA-2024:9502
AlmaLinux:9expat2.5.0-3.el9_5.1ALSA-2024:9541
AlmaLinux:8expat-devel2.2.5-16.el8_10ALSA-2024:9502
AlmaLinux:9expat-devel2.5.0-3.el9_5.1ALSA-2024:9541
Alpine:v3.20expat2.6.4-r0ALPINE-CVE-2024-50602
Alpine:v3.21expat2.6.4-r0ALPINE-CVE-2024-50602
Alpine:v3.22expat2.6.4-r0ALPINE-CVE-2024-50602
Alpine:v3.23expat2.6.4-r0ALPINE-CVE-2024-50602
Alpine:v3.24expat2.6.4-r0ALPINE-CVE-2024-50602
Alpine:v3.22qt6-qtwebengine6.8.3-r1ALPINE-CVE-2024-50602
Alpine:v3.23qt6-qtwebengine6.8.3-r1ALPINE-CVE-2024-50602
Alpine:v3.24qt6-qtwebengine6.8.3-r1ALPINE-CVE-2024-50602
Debian:12expat2.5.0-1+deb12u2DEBIAN-CVE-2024-50602
Debian:13expat2.6.3-2DEBIAN-CVE-2024-50602
Debian:14expat2.6.3-2DEBIAN-CVE-2024-50602
Debian:12libxmltokno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2024-50602
Rocky Linux:8expat0:2.2.5-16.el8_10RLSA-2024:9502
Ubuntu:22.04:LTScadaverno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50602
Ubuntu:24.04:LTScadaverno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50602
Ubuntu:25.10cadaverno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50602
Ubuntu:26.04:LTScadaverno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50602
Ubuntu:26.10cadaverno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50602
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSexpat2.4.7-1ubuntu0.5USN-7145-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSexpat2.4.7-1ubuntu0.5UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50602
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSexpat2.6.1-2ubuntu0.2USN-7145-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSexpat2.6.1-2ubuntu0.2UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50602
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSinsighttoolkit4no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50602
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSmatanzano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50602
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSmatanzano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50602
Ubuntu:25.10matanzano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50602
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSmatanzano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50602
Ubuntu:26.10matanzano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50602
Ubuntu:25.10swish-eno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50602
Ubuntu:26.10swish-eno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50602
Ubuntu:22.04:LTStdomno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50602
Ubuntu:24.04:LTStdomno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50602
Ubuntu:25.10tdomno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50602
Ubuntu:26.04:LTStdomno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50602
Ubuntu:26.10tdomno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50602
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSwbxml2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50602
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSwbxml2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50602
Ubuntu:25.10wbxml2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50602
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSwbxml2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50602
Ubuntu:26.10wbxml2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50602
Ubuntu:25.10xmlrpc-cno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50602
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSxmlrpc-cno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50602
Ubuntu:26.10xmlrpc-cno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50602

Affected products (as reported)

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Weakness: CWE-754 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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