CVE-2024-1298: Integer Overflow caused by divide by zero during S3 suspension
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2024-1298 is a medium (CVSS 6.0) Divide By Zero vulnerability in tianocore edk2. EPSS estimates a 0.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 12.4% of scored vulnerabilities.
Not severe (CVSS 6, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 5 · Related 2Timeline
- 30-05-2024PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 03-11-2025Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
EDK2 contains a vulnerability when S3 sleep is activated where an Attacker may cause a Division-By-Zero due to a UNIT32 overflow via local access. A successful exploit of this vulnerability may lead to a loss of Availability.
CVSS metrics
5 scores · 5 sources · 1 version- OSV · Red hatEcosystem advisory · calculated6.0MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated6.0MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated6.0MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVDNIST6.0MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
0.22%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
12%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 0.22% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.
Not in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: local access, administrative account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Suse7 products
- ovmf&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1< 202008-150300.10.23.1
- ovmf&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2< 202008-150300.10.23.1
- ovmf&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5< 202208-150500.6.3.1
- ovmf&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP5< 202208-150500.6.3.1
- ovmf&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP6< 202308-150600.5.19.1
Opensuse3 products
- ovmf&distro=openSUSE Leap 15.5< 202208-150500.6.3.1
- ovmf&distro=openSUSE Leap 15.6< 202308-150600.5.19.1
- ovmf&distro=openSUSE Leap Micro 5.5< 202208-150500.6.3.1
Redhat3 products
- edk2< 0:20220126gitbb1bba3d77-4.el8_8.4 | < 0:20220126gitbb1bba3d77-2.el8_6.5
- edk2-aarch64< 0:20220126gitbb1bba3d77-4.el8_8.4 | < 0:20220126gitbb1bba3d77-2.el8_6.5
- edk2-ovmf< 0:20220126gitbb1bba3d77-4.el8_8.4 | < 0:20220126gitbb1bba3d77-2.el8_6.5
Debian1 product
- edk2< 2022.11-6+deb12u2 | < 2024.05-1
Tianocore1 product
- edk2< edk2-stable202405
Ubuntu1 product
- edk2All versions (No fix recorded) | < 2022.02-3ubuntu0.22.04.4 | < 2024.02-2ubuntu0.6
6 vendors · 16 products