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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-43882" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-08-21T00:10:49.556Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T00:48:49.093Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:16.009Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-43882" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-43882.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-43882" title: "exec: Fix ToCToU between perm check and set-uid/gid usage" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nexec: Fix ToCToU between perm check and set-uid/gid usage\n\nWhen opening a file for exec via do_filp_open(), permission checking is\ndone against the file's metadata at that moment, and on success, a file\npointer is passed back. Much later in the execve() code path, the file\nmetadata (specifically mode, uid, and gid) is used to determine if/how\nto set the uid and gid. However, those values may have changed since the\npermissions check, meaning the execution may gain unintended privileges.\n\nFor example, if a file could change permissions from executable and not\nset-id:\n\n---------x 1 root root 16048 Aug 7 13:16 target\n\nto set-id and non-executable:\n\n---S------ 1 root root 16048 Aug 7 13:16 target\n\nit is possible to gain root privileges when execution should have been\ndisallowed.\n\nWhile this race condition is rare in real-world scenarios, it has been\nobserved (and proven exploitable) when package managers are updating\nthe setuid bits of installed programs. Such files start with being\nworld-executable but then are adjusted to be group-exec with a set-uid\nbit. For example, \"chmod o-x,u+s target\" makes \"target\" executable only\nby uid \"root\" and gid \"cdrom\", while also becoming setuid-root:\n\n-rwxr-xr-x 1 root cdrom 16048 Aug 7 13:16 target\n\nbecomes:\n\n-rwsr-xr-- 1 root cdrom 16048 Aug 7 13:16 target\n\nBut racing the chmod means users without group \"cdrom\" membership can\nget the permission to execute \"target\" just before the chmod, and when\nthe chmod finishes, the exec reaches brpm_fill_uid(), and performs the\nsetuid to root, violating the expressed authorization of \"only cdrom\ngroup members can setuid to root\".\n\nRe-check that we still have execute permissions in case the metadata\nhas changed. It would be better to keep a copy from the perm-check time,\nbut until we can do that refactoring, the least-bad option is to do a\nfull inode_permission() call (under inode lock). It is understood that\nthis is safe against dead-locks, but hardly optimal." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"9167b0b9a0ab7907191523f5a0528e3b9c288e21","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d5c3c7e26275a2d83b894d30f7582a42853a958f"},{"version":"9167b0b9a0ab7907191523f5a0528e3b9c288e21","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"368f6985d46657b8b466a421dddcacd4051f7ada"},{"version":"9167b0b9a0ab7907191523f5a0528e3b9c288e21","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"15469d46ba34559bfe7e3de6659115778c624759"},{"version":"9167b0b9a0ab7907191523f5a0528e3b9c288e21","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9b424c5d4130d56312e2a3be17efb0928fec4d64"},{"version":"9167b0b9a0ab7907191523f5a0528e3b9c288e21","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f6cfc6bcfd5e1cf76115b6450516ea4c99897ae1"},{"version":"9167b0b9a0ab7907191523f5a0528e3b9c288e21","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d2a2a4714d80d09b0f8eb6438ab4224690b7121e"},{"version":"9167b0b9a0ab7907191523f5a0528e3b9c288e21","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"90dfbba89ad4f0d9c9744ecbb1adac4aa2ff4f3e"},{"version":"9167b0b9a0ab7907191523f5a0528e3b9c288e21","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f50733b45d865f91db90919f8311e2127ce5a0cb"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.18"},{"version":"4.19.320","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.282","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.224","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.165","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.106","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.47","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.10.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.10.*"},{"version":"6.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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