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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-47742" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-10-21T12:14:10.499Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:39:52.866Z" 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-2024-47742" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-47742.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-47742" title: "firmware_loader: Block path traversal" summary: "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-\u003ehwinfo, \"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." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"abb139e75c2cdbb955e840d6331cb5863e409d0e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d1768e5535d3ded59f888637016e6f821f4e069f"},{"version":"abb139e75c2cdbb955e840d6331cb5863e409d0e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9b1ca33ebd05b3acef5b976c04e5e791af93ce1b"},{"version":"abb139e75c2cdbb955e840d6331cb5863e409d0e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c30558e6c5c9ad6c86459d9acce1520ceeab9ea6"},{"version":"abb139e75c2cdbb955e840d6331cb5863e409d0e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a77fc4acfd49fc6076e565445b2bc5fdc3244da4"},{"version":"abb139e75c2cdbb955e840d6331cb5863e409d0e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3d2411f4edcb649eaf232160db459bb4770b5251"},{"version":"abb139e75c2cdbb955e840d6331cb5863e409d0e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7420c1bf7fc784e587b87329cc6dfa3dca537aa4"},{"version":"abb139e75c2cdbb955e840d6331cb5863e409d0e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"28f1cd94d3f1092728fb775a0fe26c5f1ac2ebeb"},{"version":"abb139e75c2cdbb955e840d6331cb5863e409d0e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6c4e13fdfcab34811c3143a0a03c05fec4e870ec"},{"version":"abb139e75c2cdbb955e840d6331cb5863e409d0e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f0e5311aa8022107d63c54e2f03684ec097d1394"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.7"},{"version":"4.19.323","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.285","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.227","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.168","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.113","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.54","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.10.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.10.*"},{"version":"6.11.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.11.*"},{"version":"6.12","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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