VulnerabilityPublished 1 May 2024Updated 28 Oct 2026

CVE-2024-27018: Linux kernel · netfilter: br_netfilter: skip conntrack input hook for promisc packets

Affects Linux kernelSource GCVE Database

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 8.2 High · fixed in 5.15.0-1065.71~20.04.1 : patch Linux kernel soon.

Data as of 28 Oct 2026, 10:59 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score

8.2High

How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

Patch: Available – fixed in 5.15.0-1065.71~20.04.1, 5.15.0-1065.73~20.04.1, 5.15.0-1048.55~20.04.1 +36

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

Attack Vector: Network
Attack Complexity: Low
Privileges Required: None
User Interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: None
Integrity: Low
Availability: High

Bold values are the worst case: easiest to exploit or largest impact.

Attack Vector: Network: The vulnerable component is bound to the network stack and the set of possible attackers extends beyond the other options listed, up to and including the entire Internet. Such a vulnerability is often termed 'remotely exploitable' and can be thought of as an attack being exploitable at the protocol level one or more network hops away (e.g., across one or more routers).
Attack Complexity: Low: Specialized access conditions or extenuating circumstances do not exist. An attacker can expect repeatable success against the vulnerable component.
Privileges Required: None: The attacker is unauthorized prior to attack, and therefore does not require any access to settings or files to carry out an attack.
User Interaction: None: The vulnerable system can be exploited without any interaction from any user.
Scope: Unchanged: An exploited vulnerability can only affect resources managed by the same security authority. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are either the same, or both are managed by the same security authority.
Confidentiality: None: There is no loss of confidentiality within the impacted component.
Integrity: Low: Modification of data is possible, but the attacker does not have control over the consequence of a modification, or the amount of modification is limited. The data modification does not have a direct, serious impact on the impacted component.
Availability: High: There is total loss of availability, resulting in the attacker being able to fully deny access to resources in the impacted component; this loss is either sustained (while the attacker continues to deliver the attack) or persistent (the condition persists even after the attack has completed). Alternatively, the attacker has the ability to deny some availability, but the loss of availability presents a direct, serious consequence to the impacted component (e.g., the attacker cannot disrupt existing connections, but can prevent new connections; the attacker can repeatedly exploit a vulnerability that, in each instance of a successful attack, leaks a only small amount of memory, but after repeated exploitation causes a service to become completely unavailable).

Definitions: FIRST CVSS v3.1 specification.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 1 May 2024
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 26 Oct 2026.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponised: Public exploit code exists in Metasploit or Exploit-DB, or CISA SSVC or the CVSS exploit maturity reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

What to do

Upgrade to a fixed release listed under Affected software.

Patches and advisories

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
Ubuntu 26.10linux-azure`pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-azure?arch=source&distro=stonking`Other threats	Affected 7.0.0-1004.4 – 7.3.0-1003.3 5 affected builds	Fixed in–
Ubuntu 26.04 LTSlinux-azure`pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-azure?arch=source&distro=resolute`Other threats	Affected 6.17.0-1003.3 – 7.0.0-1019.20 16 affected builds	Fixed in–
Ubuntu 26.04 LTSlinux-azure-fde`pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-azure-fde?arch=source&distro=resolute`Other threats	Affected 7.0.0-1003.3 – 7.0.0-1016.16 9 affected builds	Fixed in–
Ubuntu 24.04 LTSlinux`pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux?arch=source&distro=noble`Other threats	Affected <6.8.0-38.38	Fixed in 6.8.0-38.38
Ubuntu 24.04 LTSlinux-aws`pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-aws?arch=source&distro=noble`Other threats	Affected <6.8.0-1011.12	Fixed in 6.8.0-1011.12
Ubuntu 24.04 LTSlinux-azure`pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-azure?arch=source&distro=noble`Other threats	Affected 6.5.0-1007.7 – 6.8.0-1071.79 46 affected builds	Fixed in–

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: br_netfilter: skip conntrack input hook for promisc packets For historical reasons, when bridge device is in promisc mode, packets that are directed to the taps follow bridge input hook path. This patch adds a workaround to reset conntrack for these packets. Jianbo Liu reports warning splats in their test infrastructure where cloned packets reach the br_netfilter input hook to confirm the conntrack object. Scratch one bit from BR_INPUT_SKB_CB to annotate that this packet has reached the input hook because it is passed up to the bridge device to reach the taps. [ 57.571874] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c:616 br_nf_local_in+0x157/0x180 [br_netfilter] [ 57.572749] Modules linked in: xt_MASQUERADE nf_conntrack_netlink nfnetlink iptable_nat xt_addrtype xt_conntrack nf_nat br_netfilter rpcsec_gss_krb5 auth_rpcgss oid_registry overlay rpcrdma rdma_ucm ib_iser libiscsi scsi_transport_isc si ib_umad rdma_cm ib_ipoib iw_cm ib_cm mlx5_ib ib_uverbs ib_core mlx5ctl mlx5_core [ 57.575158] CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 6.8.0+ #19 [ 57.575700] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 [ 57.576662] RIP: 0010:br_nf_local_in+0x157/0x180 [br_netfilter] [ 57.577195] Code: fe ff ff 41 bd 04 00 00 00 be 04 00 00 00 e9 4a ff ff ff be 04 00 00 00 48 89 ef e8 f3 a9 3c e1 66 83 ad b4 00 00 00 04 eb 91 <0f> 0b e9 f1 fe ff ff 0f 0b e9 df fe ff ff 48 89 df e8 b3 53 47 e1 [ 57.578722] RSP: 0018:ffff88885f845a08 EFLAGS: 00010202 [ 57.579207] RAX: 0000000000000002 RBX: ffff88812dfe8000 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 57.579830] RDX: ffff88885f845a60 RSI: ffff8881022dc300 RDI: 0000000000000000 [ 57.580454] RBP: ffff88885f845a60 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000003 [ 57.581076] R10: 00000000ffff1300 R11: 0000000000000002 R12: 0000000000000000 [ 57.581695] R13: ffff8881047ffe00 R14: ffff888108dbee00 R15: ffff88814519b800 [ 57.582313] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88885f840000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 57.583040] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 57.583564] CR2: 000000c4206aa000 CR3: 0000000103847001 CR4: 0000000000370eb0 [ 57.584194] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 57.584820] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 57.585440] Call Trace: [ 57.585721] <IRQ> [ 57.585976] ? __warn+0x7d/0x130 [ 57.586323] ? br_nf_local_in+0x157/0x180 [br_netfilter] [ 57.586811] ? report_bug+0xf1/0x1c0 [ 57.587177] ? handle_bug+0x3f/0x70 [ 57.587539] ? exc_invalid_op+0x13/0x60 [ 57.587929] ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20 [ 57.588336] ? br_nf_local_in+0x157/0x180 [br_netfilter] [ 57.588825] nf_hook_slow+0x3d/0xd0 [ 57.589188] ? br_handle_vlan+0x4b/0x110 [ 57.589579] br_pass_frame_up+0xfc/0x150 [ 57.589970] ? br_port_flags_change+0x40/0x40 [ 57.590396] br_handle_frame_finish+0x346/0x5e0 [ 57.590837] ? ipt_do_table+0x32e/0x430 [ 57.591221] ? br_handle_local_finish+0x20/0x20 [ 57.591656] br_nf_hook_thresh+0x4b/0xf0 [br_netfilter] [ 57.592286] ? br_handle_local_finish+0x20/0x20 [ 57.592802] br_nf_pre_routing_finish+0x178/0x480 [br_netfilter] [ 57.593348] ? br_handle_local_finish+0x20/0x20 [ 57.593782] ? nf_nat_ipv4_pre_routing+0x25/0x60 [nf_nat] [ 57.594279] br_nf_pre_routing+0x24c/0x550 [br_netfilter] [ 57.594780] ? br_nf_hook_thresh+0xf0/0xf0 [br_netfilter] [ 57.595280] br_handle_frame+0x1f3/0x3d0 [ 57.595676] ? br_handle_local_finish+0x20/0x20 [ 57.596118] ? br_handle_frame_finish+0x5e0/0x5e0 [ 57.596566] __netif_receive_skb_core+0x25b/0xfc0 [ 57.597017] ? __napi_build_skb+0x37/0x40 [ 57.597418] __netif_receive_skb_list_core+0xfb/0x220

GCVE source: db.gcve.eu
OSV ID: UBUNTU-CVE-2024-27018
Osv Schema Version: 1.7.0
Ecosystems: Ubuntu:16.04:LTS, Ubuntu:18.04:LTS, Ubuntu:20.04:LTS, Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS, Ubuntu:Nvidia-BlueField:22.04:LTS, Ubuntu:Pro:Realtime:22.04:LTS, Ubuntu:Pro:FIPS-updates:22.04:LTS, Ubuntu:24.04:LTS, Ubuntu:Pro:Realtime:24.04:LTS, Ubuntu:Pro:FIPS-updates:24.04:LTS, Ubuntu:26.10, Ubuntu:26.04:LTS
CVSS version: 3.1

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