CVE-2024-55884: In the Mullvad VPN client 2024.6 (Desktop), 2024.8 (iOS), and 2024.8-beta1 (Android), the exception-handling alternate stack can be exhausted,...
9.0
CVSS
Description
In the Mullvad VPN client 2024.6 (Desktop), 2024.8 (iOS), and 2024.8-beta1 (Android), the exception-handling alternate stack can be exhausted, leading to heap-based out-of-bounds writes in enable() in exception_logging/unix.rs, aka MLLVD-CR-24-01. NOTE: achieving code execution is considered non-trivial.
Classification
CVE ID: CVE-2024-55884
CVSS Base Severity: CRITICAL
CVSS Base Score: 9.0
Affected Products
Vendor: n/a
Product: n/a
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
EPSS Score: 0.05% (probability of being exploited)
EPSS Percentile: 17.83% (scored less or equal to compared to others)
EPSS Date: 2025-02-04 (when was this score calculated)
References
https://x41-dsec.de/news/2024/12/11/mullvad/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42390768
https://github.com/mullvad/mullvadvpn-app/commit/ef6c862071b26023802b00d6e1dc6ca53d1ab3e6