{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2024-47742", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2024-09-30T16:00:12.959Z", "datePublished": "2024-10-21T12:14:10.499Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T11:39:52.866Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T11:39:52.866Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfirmware_loader: Block path traversal\n\nMost firmware names are hardcoded strings, or are constructed from fairly\nconstrained format strings where the dynamic parts are just some hex\nnumbers or such.\n\nHowever, there are a couple codepaths in the kernel where firmware file\nnames contain string components that are passed through from a device or\nsemi-privileged userspace; the ones I could find (not counting interfaces\nthat require root privileges) are:\n\n - lpfc_sli4_request_firmware_update() seems to construct the firmware\n filename from \"ModelName\", a string that was previously parsed out of\n some descriptor (\"Vital Product Data\") in lpfc_fill_vpd()\n - nfp_net_fw_find() seems to construct a firmware filename from a model\n name coming from nfp_hwinfo_lookup(pf->hwinfo, \"nffw.partno\"), which I\n think parses some descriptor that was read from the device.\n (But this case likely isn't exploitable because the format string looks\n like \"netronome/nic_%s\", and there shouldn't be any *folders* starting\n with \"netronome/nic_\". The previous case was different because there,\n the \"%s\" is *at the start* of the format string.)\n - module_flash_fw_schedule() is reachable from the\n ETHTOOL_MSG_MODULE_FW_FLASH_ACT netlink command, which is marked as\n GENL_UNS_ADMIN_PERM (meaning CAP_NET_ADMIN inside a user namespace is\n enough to pass the privilege check), and takes a userspace-provided\n firmware name.\n (But I think to reach this case, you need to have CAP_NET_ADMIN over a\n network namespace that a special kind of ethernet device is mapped into,\n so I think this is not a viable attack path in practice.)\n\nFix it by rejecting any firmware names containing \"..\" path components.\n\nFor what it's worth, I went looking and haven't found any USB device\ndrivers that use the firmware loader dangerously." } ], "metrics": [ { "cvssV3_1": { "version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "baseScore": 7.8, "baseSeverity": "HIGH" }, "scenarios": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "AV:L - The most viable attacker-triggerable path is the local ETHTOOL_MSG_MODULE_FW_FLASH_ACT generic-netlink command, which passes a fully attacker-controlled filename string into request_firmware_direct(); the device-side paths (lpfc VPD, nfp hwinfo) would only be Physical, so Local is the higher-severity reachable vector.\nAC:L - There is no race, no memory-layout dependency, and no probabilistic element — the attacker supplies the \"..\" path directly and traversal succeeds deterministically on the first attempt.\nPR:L - The ethtool op is marked GENL_UNS_ADMIN_PERM, meaning CAP_NET_ADMIN inside a user namespace satisfies the check, which per kernel scoring practice is an unprivileged local user; the alternative lpfc path needs no host credentials at all, only a device supplying a malicious VPD ModelName string.\nUI:N - The attacker sends the netlink request itself and the firmware load happens synchronously in that syscall; no victim action is required (and on the lpfc path the load fires automatically from the driver's probe/init routine).\nS:U - The vulnerable component and the impacted resources are both the host kernel and its filesystem — there is no VM, hypervisor, or IOMMU boundary crossed, so this is standard in-kernel impact.\nC:H - _request_firmware() reads the target with kernel credentials (override_creds(prepare_kernel_cred(&init_task))) resolved against init's mount namespace, so traversal yields an arbitrary root-privileged read of any file on the host (/etc/shadow, TLS/SSH private keys), and the contents are then shipped into device flash where an attacker controlling the HBA or transceiver can retrieve them.\nI:H - The traversal breaks the firmware loader's guarantee that images come only from root-owned /lib/firmware, letting the attacker redirect the load to a file they wrote themselves and have that unvalidated content flashed into device firmware (lpfc_wr_object / CMIS module update) as well as parsed by driver firmware-parsing code that trusts its input.\nA:H - Writing non-firmware or attacker-authored content into an HBA's or optical module's flash can permanently brick the adapter, driver firmware parsers readily oops on arbitrary non-firmware data, and kernel_read_file() vmalloc()s the entire target file (up to INT_MAX) so pointing at a multi-gigabyte file drives the machine into memory exhaustion." } ] } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "abb139e75c2cdbb955e840d6331cb5863e409d0e", "lessThan": "d1768e5535d3ded59f888637016e6f821f4e069f", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "abb139e75c2cdbb955e840d6331cb5863e409d0e", "lessThan": "9b1ca33ebd05b3acef5b976c04e5e791af93ce1b", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "abb139e75c2cdbb955e840d6331cb5863e409d0e", "lessThan": 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