CVE record · CVE-2024-3094

Xz: malicious code in distributed source

CVSS 10.0 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.91 · 99th percentile

Critical, because:

CVSS score 10.0: 9.0 or more.
CVSS score 10.0 (7.0 or more) and EPSS 0.91 (0.1 or more): a high score and a real chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 29 Mar 2024, 16:51 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Not given	Not given Package name: xz https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz	affected 5.6.0 affected 5.6.1 Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Package name: xz https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Package name: xz https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Package name: xz https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Package name: xz https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Package name: xz https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8 Package name: xz https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html	No versions given Other versions: unaffected

Identifiers: CVE-2024-3094
CNA: redhat
Weakness (CWE): CWE-506
Tags: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8
CWE-506
Published: 29 Mar 2024
Updated: 4 Nov 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
10.0	Critical	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	CNA (redhat)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.91, the 99th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

29 Mar 2024, 16:51 UTC Confirmed by the CVE List
29 Mar 2024, 17:15 UTC Confirmed by NVD

Sources

References from the CNA

access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-3094 vdb-entryredhat
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2272210 issue-trackingredhat
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4
www.redhat.com/en/blog/urgent-security-alert-fedora-41-and-rawhide-users

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.