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high 7.5

CVE-2024-48615 json

Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability in libarchive 3.7.6 and earlier when running program bsdtar...

published 2025-03-28 19 mo ago modified 2026-07-23 3 mo ago also EUVD-2024-54322 , JLSEC-2025-244

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 45%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability in libarchive 3.7.6 and earlier when running program bsdtar in function header_pax_extension at rchive_read_support_format_tar.c:1844:8.

Patch / fix

  • julia LibArchive_jll 3.7.9+0
  • cmake CBL-Mariner 2.0 3.21.4-17
  • libarchive CBL-Mariner 2.0 3.6.1-6
  • cmake Azure Linux 3.0 3.30.3-6

azure linux advisories AZL-59338AZL-59377AZL-59385

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-48615 updated cvss 7.5

libarchive: Null Pointer Dereference in Libarchive

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8, openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 libarchive Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 bsdtar, bsdcpio, libarchive Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 bsdtar, libarchive Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 bsdtar, libarchive Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 libarchive
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
19 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.54% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 45% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/88Sanghy88/crash-test referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
OSV 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
julia LibArchive_jll
<3.7.9+0
3.7.9+0

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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