{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2024-46696", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2024-09-11T15:12:18.250Z", "datePublished": "2024-09-13T05:29:24.123Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T11:38:01.015Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T11:38:01.015Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnfsd: fix potential UAF in nfsd4_cb_getattr_release\n\nOnce we drop the delegation reference, the fields embedded in it are no\nlonger safe to access. Do that last." } ], "metrics": [ { "cvssV3_1": { "version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "baseScore": 9.8, "baseSeverity": "CRITICAL" }, "scenarios": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "AV:N - The vulnerable path is in the in-kernel NFS server and is driven entirely by NFSv4 COMPOUND requests (OPEN/GETATTR/DELEGRETURN) and the client's CB_GETATTR callback reply over TCP port 2049. No local access to the server is needed.\nAC:L - The attacker controls both sides of the race — the CB_GETATTR reply timing on its own callback channel (the server's wait is a fixed 30 ms timeout that is trivially exceeded on purpose) and the DELEGRETURN that drops the delegation's in-force reference — so it can deterministically arrange for the release callback's put to be the final one.\nPR:N - NFS AUTH_SYS performs no real authentication: any host permitted by the export list simply asserts a uid, and CVSS does not treat network-level export ACLs as privileges. On a typical rw NFSv4 export the attacker needs only to open a file for write and issue a GETATTR from a second clientid, both pre-any-credential-verification.\nUI:N - The attacker drives both the delegation-holding client and the GETATTR-issuing client itself; no action by any legitimate user or administrator is required.\nS:U - The use-after-free corrupts kernel slab memory within the same security authority as the nfsd server; no VM, IOMMU, or sandbox boundary is crossed.\nC:H - A use-after-free on a freed nfs4_delegation gives the attacker, who can groom the reallocation, read access to the reused object — the wake path's test_bit() reads the freed word, and a delegation reused with stale/attacker-adjacent state can leak kernel pointers and file attribute data back over the NFS connection.\nI:H - clear_bit() performs a write into freed slab memory at a fixed offset; since deleg_slab is created with no SLAB_ACCOUNT and no constructor it merges with other same-size caches, turning this into a groomable arbitrary-object bit-clear primitive usable to corrupt flags, counters, or pointer low bits for control-flow hijacking.\nA:H - The use-after-free reliably corrupts freed or reallocated delegation state, causing KASAN-detected UAF, spurious CB_GETATTR re-issue on an in-flight callback, and kernel oops/panic of the NFS file server, which can be triggered repeatedly." } ] } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "c5967721e1063648b0506481585ba7e2e49a075e", "lessThan": "e0b66698a5ae41078f7490e8b3527013f5fccd6c", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "c5967721e1063648b0506481585ba7e2e49a075e", "lessThan": "1116e0e372eb16dd907ec571ce5d4af325c55c10", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" } ] }, { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "6.9", "status": "affected" }, { "version": "0", "lessThan": "6.9", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.10.8", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.10.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.11", "lessThanOrEqual": "*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix" } ] } ], "cpeApplicability": [ { "nodes": [ { "operator": "OR", "negate": false, "cpeMatch": [ { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.9", "versionEndExcluding": "6.10.8" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.9", "versionEndExcluding": "6.11" } ] } ] } ], "references": [ { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0b66698a5ae41078f7490e8b3527013f5fccd6c" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1116e0e372eb16dd907ec571ce5d4af325c55c10" } ], "title": "nfsd: fix potential UAF in nfsd4_cb_getattr_release", "x_generator": { "engine": "bippy-1.2.0" } }, "adp": [ { "metrics": [ { "other": { "type": "ssvc", "content": { "timestamp": "2024-09-29T15:05:32.048367Z", "id": "CVE-2024-46696", "options": [ { "Exploitation": "none" }, { "Automatable": "no" }, { "Technical Impact": "partial" } ], "role": "CISA Coordinator", "version": "2.0.3" } } } ], "title": "CISA ADP Vulnrichment", "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0", "shortName": "CISA-ADP", "dateUpdated": "2024-09-29T15:05:46.361Z" } } ] } }