VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2024-3094

CVSS score10 CRITICAL
EPSS probability90.90%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2024-03-29
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

Malicious code was discovered in the upstream tarballs of xz, starting with version 5.6.0. Through a series of complex obfuscations, the liblzma build process extracts a prebuilt object file from a disguised test file existing in the source code, which is then used to modify specific functions in the liblzma code. This results in a modified liblzma library that can be used by any software linked against this library, intercepting and modifying the data interaction with this library.

Weakness classification

  • secalert@redhat.com: CWE-506

Primary references