🛡️ CVE-2024-55566 on Ubuntu — colpack

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2024-55566 as tracked by Ubuntu, for the package colpack. No fixed version has been recorded for this distribution yet.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

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

• Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
• Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
• Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
• User interaction: Required — someone has to click, open or visit something.
• Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
• Confidentiality impact: None.
• Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
• Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-55566 is classified as CWE-335: Incorrect Usage of Seeds in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG). The product uses a Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) but does not correctly manage seeds.

Affected software

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-55566 is recorded against 1 package.

• colpack

Timeline and source

Published on 9 December 2024 and last revised on 20 May 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

ubuntu.com (Report)
www.cve.org (Report)
bugzilla.suse.com (Report)
cwe.mitre.org (Report)
github.com (Report)

Other advisories for this package

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

• DEBIAN-CVE-2024-55566 (published 9 Dec 2024)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-335: Incorrect Usage of Seeds in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)) in other software:

• CVE-2026-11702 (7.5 High, published 26 Jun 2026)
• CVE-2026-11625 (7.5 High, published 26 Jun 2026)
• CVE-2026-41564 (7.5 High, published 23 Apr 2026)
• CVE-2026-25835 (7.7 High, published 1 Apr 2026)
• CVE-2026-3503 (5.2 Medium, published 19 Mar 2026)
• CVE-2025-52578 (5.7 Medium, published 18 Nov 2025)
• CVE-2025-27580 (7.5 High, published 24 Apr 2025)
• CVE-2025-24783 (7.5 High, published 27 Jan 2025)

CVE-2024-55566 on other distributions

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

Details

Affected Packages

References