Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-54661

Critical

Published: 04 December 2024

Published
04 December 2024
Modified
15 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0016 37.2th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-54661 is a critical-severity UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following (CWE-61) vulnerability in Dest Unreach (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked at the 37.2th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

readline.sh in socat before1.8.0.2 relies on the /tmp/$USER/stderr2 file.

CWE(s)
CWE-61

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

Dest Unreach
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inferred from references and description; NVD did not file a CPE for this CVE

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References