5.5

CVE-2024-46672: linux NULL Pointer Dereference

CVSS: 5.5v3.1MediumAnalyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2024-46672DEBIAN-CVE-2024-46672
Published 11-09-2024Last modified 11-05-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-46672 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 10.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
22/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.21%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 11 · Related 11
SUSE-SU-2024:3551-1SUSE-SU-2024:3553-1SUSE-SU-2024:3561-1SUSE-SU-2024:3564-1SUSE-SU-2025:20073-1SUSE-SU-2025:20077-1

Timeline

  1. 11-09-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: brcmfmac: cfg80211: Handle SSID based pmksa deletion wpa_supplicant 2.11 sends since 1efdba5fdc2c ("Handle PMKSA flush in the driver for SAE/OWE offload cases") SSID based PMKSA del commands. brcmfmac is not prepared and tries to dereference the NULL bssid and pmkid pointers in cfg80211_pmksa. PMKID_V3 operations support SSID based updates so copy the SSID.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.21%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

10%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.21% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
0.21%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Ubuntu93 products
  • linux< 6.8.0-50.51
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws< 6.8.0-1020.22
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ a96202acaea47fa8377088e0952bb63bd02a3bab, < 4291f94f8c6b01505132c22ee27b59ed27c3584f | ≥ a96202acaea47fa8377088e0952bb63bd02a3bab, < 1f566eb912d192c83475a919331aea59619e1197 | ≥ a96202acaea47fa8377088e0952bb63bd02a3bab, < 2ad4e1ada8eebafa2d75a4b75eeeca882de6ada1 | 6.4
  • linux_kernel≥ 6.4, < 6.6.48 | ≥ 6.7, < 6.10.7 | 6.11:rc1 | 6.11:rc2 | 6.11:rc3
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.10.7-1

3 vendors · 96 products

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