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Exploited in the wild Confirmed confidence In CISA KEV

CVE-2024-53104

Linux

Linux · affected before 95edf13a48e75dc2cc5b0bc57bf90d6948a22fe8

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Severity
CVSS 7.8 · High
Confidence
Confirmed
Exploit status
Exploited in the wild
EPSS
3.4%
First observed
—
Last observed
—

Decision summary

What security teams need to know first

Direct answers before the deeper technical record.

What it is

CVE-2024-53104 is a vulnerability affecting Linux. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: uvcvideo: Skip parsing frames of type UVC_VS_UNDEFINED in uvc_parse_format This can lead...

Is it exploited?

Yes. Previdian tracks this CVE as a known exploited vulnerability. Confidence is confirmed. Listed in CISA KEV. Also confirmed by third-party sources.

Who is affected?

Linux affected before 95edf13a48e75dc2cc5b0bc57bf90d6948a22fe8.

What should we do?

Prioritize remediation. Validate affected assets and apply vendor fixes on an accelerated timeline.

Overview

Linux

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

media: uvcvideo: Skip parsing frames of type UVC_VS_UNDEFINED in uvc_parse_format

This can lead to out of bounds writes since frames of this type were not taken into account when calculating the size of the frames buffer in uvc_parse_streaming.

Linux Affected
Linux
Before 95edf13a48e75dc2cc5b0bc57bf90d6948a22fe8 Before 684022f81f128338fe3587ec967459669a1204ae Before faff5bbb2762c44ec7426037b3000e77a11d6773 Before 467d84dc78c9abf6b217ada22b3fdba336262e29 Before beced2cb09b58c1243733f374c560a55382003d6 Before 575a562f7a3ec2d54ff77ab6810e3fbceef2a91d Before 622ad10aae5f5e03b7927ea95f7f32812f692bb5 Before 1ee9d9122801eb688783acd07791f2906b87cb4f Before ecf2b43018da9579842c774b7f35dbe11b5c38dd 2.6.26
Linux Unaffected
Linux
Before 2.6.26 Through 4.19.* Through 5.4.* Through 5.10.* Through 5.15.* Through 6.1.* Through 6.6.* Through 6.11.* Through 6.12.* Through *
Published
02 Dec 2024
Exploitation Reported
05 Feb 2025
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None

Tags

nessus_scanner linux windows cisa

CVE References

Exploitation evidence

Why Previdian marks this CVE as exploited

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Exploited in the wild

CISA

Recorded 05 Feb 2025

A trusted third party reported exploitation.

Known exploited vulnerability sources

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Source Added
CISA First 2025-02-05 00:00 UTC
CVE 2026-06-05 09:42 UTC

Detection

Operational artifacts and observed signals

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Observed signals

Request targets
User-Agents
Callback hosts
0
0
0

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Virtual patch status

No Previdian virtual patch is currently available. Future rules ship for ModSecurity, Cloudflare, and AWS WAF.

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Scanner Artifacts

Scanner and exploit-framework references linked to this CVE.

Scanner Reference Detected
Nessus https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/237432 02 Jun 2025

Risk and context

Severity, weaknesses, and research context

CVSS v3.1

7.8 High

Potential damage if exploited. Separate from whether attackers are using it.

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

EPSS

3.4%

Estimated chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Previdian's warning comes from evidence, not this score.

Weaknesses

Out-of-bounds Write CWE-787

Recent mention · Google Threat Intelligence

Written by: Casey Charrier, James Sadowski, Clement Lecigne, Vlad Stolyarov Executive Summary Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) tracked 75...

Written by: Casey Charrier, James Sadowski, Clement Lecigne, Vlad Stolyarov Executive Summary Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) tracked 75 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in the wild in 2024, a decrease from the number we identified in 2023 (98 vulnerabilities), but...

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Timeline

From disclosure to observed exploitation

  1. 09:42 UTC

    KEV confirmed by CVE

    Exploitation attested by an external source

  2. 09:25 UTC

    Nessus plugin available

    Scanner coverage available

  3. 00:00 UTC

    Added to CISA KEV

    Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

  4. 07:29 UTC

    CVE published

    Vulnerability disclosed publicly

  5. 17:17 UTC

    CVE ID reserved

    Identifier reserved by the CNA

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GET /api/v2/pro/kevs/CVE-2024-53104

Free JSON includes basic KEV fields 
{
  "cve_id": "CVE-2024-53104",
  "confidence": "Confirmed",
  "cvss_score": 7.8,
  "cvss_estimated": false,
  "epss_score": 0.03395,
  "exploit_status": {
    "exploited_in_the_wild": true,
    "active_exploitation_observed": false
  },
  "sensor_telemetry": { "attempts": 0, "sensors": 0 }
}