9.8

CVE-2024-54661: dest-unreach socat UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following

Deferred
AliasesALPINE-CVE-2024-54661MGASA-2024-0390SUSE-SU-2024:4294-1
Published 04-12-2024Last modified 09-01-2025

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-54661 is a critical (CVSS 9.8) UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in dest-unreach socat. EPSS estimates a 0.80% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 56.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Prioritisesevere

Severe, CVSS 9.8 (CVE.org); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources; EPSS 1% (FIRST, 03-11-2026)

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
9.8/10
010
Critical · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.80%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1 · Related 1
USN-8511-1

Timeline

  1. 04-12-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 09-01-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

readline.sh in socat before1.8.0.2 relies on the /tmp/$USER/stderr2 file.

CVSS metrics

6 scores · 6 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.80%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

56%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.80% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Suse7 products
  • socat&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2< 1.7.3.2-150000.6.3.1
  • socat&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3< 1.8.0.0-150400.14.6.1
  • socat&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4< 1.8.0.0-150400.14.6.1
  • socat&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5< 1.8.0.0-150400.14.6.1
  • socat&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP5< 1.8.0.0-150400.14.6.1
Opensuse4 products
  • socat&distro=openSUSE Leap 15.5< 1.8.0.0-150400.14.6.1
  • socat&distro=openSUSE Leap 15.6< 1.8.0.0-150600.20.6.1
  • socat&distro=openSUSE Leap Micro 5.5< 1.8.0.0-150400.14.6.1
  • socat&distro=openSUSE Tumbleweed< 1.8.0.2-1.1
Redhat3 products
  • socat< 0:1.7.4.1-6.el9_6.1 | < 0:1.7.4.1-5.el9_2.2 | < 0:1.7.4.1-5.el9_4.3 | < 0:1.7.4.1-2.el8_10
  • socat-debuginfo< 0:1.7.4.1-6.el9_6.1 | < 0:1.7.4.1-5.el9_2.2 | < 0:1.7.4.1-5.el9_4.3 | < 0:1.7.4.1-2.el8_10
  • socat-debugsource< 0:1.7.4.1-6.el9_6.1 | < 0:1.7.4.1-5.el9_2.2 | < 0:1.7.4.1-5.el9_4.3 | < 0:1.7.4.1-2.el8_10
Alpine1 product
  • socatAll versions (No fix recorded)
Debian1 product
  • socatAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 1.8.0.2-1
Dest-unreach1 product
  • socat≥ 1.6.0.0, < 1.8.0.2 | ≥ 2.0.0-b1, ≤ 2.0.0-b9
Mageia1 product
  • socat< 1.8.0.2-1.mga9
Ubuntu1 product
  • socatAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 1.8.0.0-4ubuntu0.1

8 vendors · 19 products

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