🛡️ CVE-2024-54661 on Alpine 3.20 (Root.io) — rootio-socat

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2024-54661 as tracked by Alpine 3.20 (Root.io), for the package rootio-socat. The fix is available in version 1.8.0.0-r00071; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high. (rating taken from the base CVE record.)

Weakness class

ROOT-OS-ALPINE-320-CVE-2024-54661 is classified as CWE-61: UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following. The product, when opening a file or directory, does not sufficiently account for when the file is a symbolic link that resolves to a target outside of the intended control sphere.

Affected software

ROOT-OS-ALPINE-320-CVE-2024-54661 is recorded against 1 package.

• rootio-socat (fixed in 1.8.0.0-r00071)

Timeline and source

Published on 12 August 2025 and last revised on 13 February 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

CVE-2024-54661 on other distributions

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