CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-24990

Use After Free

Published: Feb 14, 2024 | Modified: Feb 13, 2025
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
7.5 IMPORTANT
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

When NGINX Plus or NGINX OSS are configured to use the HTTP/3 QUIC module, undisclosed requests can cause NGINX worker processes to terminate.

Note: The HTTP/3 QUIC module is not enabled by default and is considered experimental. For more information, refer to Support for QUIC and HTTP/3 https://nginx.org/en/docs/quic.html .

Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated

Weakness

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Nginx_open_source F5 1.25.0 (including) 1.25.4 (excluding)
Nginx_plus F5 r30 (including) r30 (including)
Nginx_plus F5 r30-p1 (including) r30-p1 (including)
Nginx_plus F5 r31 (including) r31 (including)
Nginx Ubuntu bionic *
Nginx Ubuntu trusty *
Nginx Ubuntu upstream *
Nginx Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References