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CVE-2024-24783VulnerabilityPublished Updated

Red Hat Security Advisory: buildah security update

Affects Red Hat buildahSource GCVE Database

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Not known to be exploited.

Data as of 30 Oct 2026, 20:25 UTC

Severity
Medium

Rated by Threat Radar · No CVSS score from NVD or the CNA

EPSS
0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 51% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 3 Sep 2024

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq 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 30 Oct 2026.

What to do

AI-suggested

Red Hat has released updated buildah packages that address this vulnerability. Users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 and its extended update support versions should apply the provided security updates as detailed in Red Hat advisory RHSA-2024:6189. No additional mitigations are indicated beyond applying the official patch.

Description

A security update for the buildah package in Red Hat Enterprise Linux addresses a vulnerability (CVE-2024-24783) in the golang crypto/x509 package where certificate verification panics on certificates with an unknown public key algorithm. This issue could affect the reliability of certificate validation during container image building. Red Hat has rated the impact as moderate and has released updates for multiple Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 variants.

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