🛡️ CVE-2024-45778 — enterprise-linux

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

• Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
• Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
• Privileges required: High — administrative rights are needed first.
• User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
• Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
• Confidentiality impact: None.
• Integrity impact: None.
• Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-45778 is classified as CWE-190: Integer Overflow or Wraparound. Arithmetic produces a value too large for its type and wraps around, so a later size or bounds check passes when it should not.

Affected software

CVE-2024-45778 is recorded against 3 packages.

• enterprise-linux
• grub2 (fixed in 2.12)
• openshift-container-platform

Timeline and source

Published on 3 March 2025 and last revised on 29 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

access.redhat.com
bugzilla.redhat.com
lists.gnu.org

Other advisories for this package

enterprise-linux has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

• CVE-2026-59091 (7.3 High, published 10 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-59090 (8.4 High, published 10 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-59088 (5.5 Medium, published 10 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-59087 (7.8 High, published 10 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-71227 (5.1 Medium, published 5 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-71226 (7.3 High, published 5 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-71225 (6.5 Medium, published 5 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-68744 (3.3 Low, published 4 Aug 2026)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-190: Integer Overflow or Wraparound) in other software:

• CVE-2022-36015 (8.0 High, published 13 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2023-25667 (8.0 High, published 13 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2023-25662 (8.0 High, published 13 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2022-23567 (8.0 High, published 9 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2017-12864 (8.0 High, published 9 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2017-12863 (8.0 High, published 9 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2022-23575 (8.0 High, published 9 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2017-1000450 (8.0 High, published 2 Jul 2026)

CVE-2024-45778 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

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