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NOTICE UPDATED - April, 25th 2024

NIST has updated the NVD program announcement page with additional information regarding recent concerns and the temporary delays in enrichment efforts.

CVE-2024-3094 Detail

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.


Severity



CVSS 3.x Severity and Metrics:

NIST CVSS score matches with CNA score
CNA:  Red Hat, Inc.
Base Score:  10.0 CRITICAL
Vector:  CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H


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Hyperlink Resource
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-3094 Vendor Advisory 
https://ariadne.space/2024/04/02/the-xz-utils-backdoor-is-a-symptom-of-a-larger-problem/
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/backdoor-found-in-widely-used-linux-utility-breaks-encrypted-ssh-connections/ Third Party Advisory 
https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/AWS-2024-002/ Third Party Advisory 
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/statement_on_backdoor_in_xz
https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-know-about-the-xz-backdoor Third Party Advisory 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1068024 Mailing List  Vendor Advisory 
https://bugs.gentoo.org/928134 Issue Tracking  Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2272210 Issue Tracking  Vendor Advisory 
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1222124 Issue Tracking  Third Party Advisory 
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/cve-2024-3094-malicious-code-in-xz-5-6-0-and-5-6-1-tarballs/42405 Third Party Advisory 
https://gist.github.com/thesamesam/223949d5a074ebc3dce9ee78baad9e27 Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rxwq-x6h5-x525 Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/amlweems/xzbot
https://github.com/karcherm/xz-malware Third Party Advisory 
https://gynvael.coldwind.pl/?lang=en&id=782 Technical Description  Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2024/msg00057.html Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-security/2024-March/000248.html Third Party Advisory 
https://lwn.net/Articles/967180/ Issue Tracking  Third Party Advisory 
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39865810 Issue Tracking  Third Party Advisory 
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39877267 Issue Tracking 
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39895344
https://openssf.org/blog/2024/03/30/xz-backdoor-cve-2024-3094/ Third Party Advisory 
https://research.swtch.com/xz-script
https://research.swtch.com/xz-timeline
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-3094 Third Party Advisory 
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2024-3094 Third Party Advisory 
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2024-3094 Third Party Advisory 
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240402-0001/
https://tukaani.org/xz-backdoor/ Issue Tracking  Vendor Advisory 
https://twitter.com/LetsDefendIO/status/1774804387417751958 Third Party Advisory 
https://twitter.com/debian/status/1774219194638409898 Press/Media Coverage 
https://twitter.com/infosecb/status/1774595540233167206 Press/Media Coverage 
https://twitter.com/infosecb/status/1774597228864139400 Press/Media Coverage 
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-3094 Third Party Advisory 
https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/03/29/reported-supply-chain-compromise-affecting-xz-utils-data-compression-library-cve-2024-3094 Third Party Advisory  US Government Resource 
https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/are-you-affected-by-the-backdoor-in-xz-utils Third Party Advisory 
https://www.kali.org/blog/about-the-xz-backdoor/
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4 Mailing List 
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/urgent-security-alert-fedora-41-and-rawhide-users Vendor Advisory 
https://www.tenable.com/blog/frequently-asked-questions-cve-2024-3094-supply-chain-backdoor-in-xz-utils Third Party Advisory 
https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/29/malicious_backdoor_xz/ Press/Media Coverage 
https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/vulnerabilities/cve-2024-3094
https://xeiaso.net/notes/2024/xz-vuln/ Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-506 Embedded Malicious Code Provider acceptance level Red Hat, Inc.  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2024-3094
NVD Published Date:
03/29/2024
NVD Last Modified:
04/12/2024
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.