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CVE-2024-50302

Medium CVSS 5.5 Known exploited

Published 2024-11-19 · last changed 2026-06-17 · added to CISA KEV 2025-03-04

This one is being exploited in the wild.

CISA added CVE-2024-50302 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2025-03-04. Federal agencies are required to remediate it on a deadline. If you have affected machines, this is the class of finding that moves ahead of the rest of the queue.

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-2024-50302, which normally means it is not a Windows CVE. For non-Microsoft software the fix is the vendor's own updated release, and the affected versions are listed below.

What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: core: zero-initialize the report buffer Since the report buffer is used by all kinds of drivers in various ways, let's zero-initialize it during allocation to make sure that it can't be ever used to leak kernel memory via specially-crafted report.

Sources

CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N