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high 7.8

CVE-2024-56563 json

ceph: fix cred leak in ceph_mds_check_access()

published 2024-12-27 22 mo ago modified 2026-08-05 3 mo ago also EUVD-2024-53211

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 11%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ceph: fix cred leak in ceph_mds_check_access()

get_current_cred() increments the reference counter, but the put_cred() call was missing.

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 6.12.4, 6.13
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13 6.12.5-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-56563

  • linux-hwe-6.11 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.11.0-21.21~24.04.1
  • linux-oem-6.11 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.11.0-1017.17

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2024-56563

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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-2024-56563 updated cvss 3.3

kernel: ceph: fix cred leak in ceph_mds_check_access()

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more
    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

Exploit prediction

0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 11% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

Classification

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