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Linux kernel uvcvideo and HID bugs in Cellebrite's Android unlock chain (CVE-2024-53104, CVE-2024-50302)

CVE-2024-53104, CVE-2024-50302High, CVSS 7.8In CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog since 5 Feb 2025

  • Exploited before a fix
FixedFixed for every supported version 3.5 days after the first public report.

Response

Silence
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Exposure
0h
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Follow-through
3.5d
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  • Vendor silent
  • Vendor statement, no fix
  • Fixed for some versions
  • Fixed when disclosed
  • Date only, no time of day

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  1. First public report

    CVE-2024-50302 record (CNA: Linux)CuratedQuote verified

    "datePublished":"2024-11-19T01:30:51.300Z"

    First of the three CVEs published (HID: core: zero-initialize the report buffer). Nothing about exploitation was public until Google's Android bulletin of February 2025 and Amnesty's report of 2025-02-28.

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    CVE.org record CVE-2024-50302ClaimedQuote verified19 Nov 2024, 01:30 UTC

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

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    Bluesky postClaimedQuote not checked yet19 Nov 2024, 02:18 UTC

    ID: CVE-2024-50302

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    CVE-2024-53104 record (CNA: Linux)CuratedQuote verified2 Dec 2024, 07:29 UTC

    "datePublished":"2024-12-02T07:29:27.261Z"

    uvcvideo bug; flagged by Android's 2025-02-01 bulletin: 'There are indications that CVE-2024-53104 may be under limited, targeted exploitation.'

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    Mastodon postClaimedQuote not checked yet4 Feb 2025, 12:10 UTC

    📬 Android-Updates im Februar schließen gefährliche Sicherheitslücken # Datenschutz # ITSicherheit # Android # CVE202453104 # OutofBoundsWrites # PatchTuesday # Sicherheitslücken # Smartphone

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    CISA KEV (CVE-2024-53104)ClaimedQuote verified5 Feb 2025

    Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write Vulnerability

    Added to CISA's KEV catalog on 2025-02-05.

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    Hacker NewsClaimedQuote not checked yet7 Feb 2025, 11:49 UTC

    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-53104 Maybe dang can change the URL to one of the sources at the bottom, this is too obviously and annoyingly AI-written...

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    CISA KEV (CVE-2024-50302)ClaimedQuote verified4 Mar 2025

    Linux Kernel Use of Uninitialized Resource Vulnerability

    Added to CISA's KEV catalog on 2025-03-04.

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  2. Vendor statement

    at disclosure

    CVE-2024-50302 record (CNA: Linux)CuratedQuote verified

    "datePublished":"2024-11-19T01:30:51.300Z"

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    CVE-2024-53104 record (CNA: Linux)CuratedQuote verified2 Dec 2024, 07:29 UTC

    "datePublished":"2024-12-02T07:29:27.261Z"

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  3. First workaround

    No official mitigation found yet.

  4. First fix

    at disclosure

    kernel.org ChangeLog-5.15.172CuratedQuote verified

    Date: Thu Nov 14 13:13:42 2024 +0100

    Top entry of the Linux 5.15.172 ChangeLog is the release commit 'Linux 5.15.172' dated Thu Nov 14 13:13:42 2024 +0100 = 2024-11-14 12:13 UTC (commit author date). First release fixing either CVE (both CVE-2024-50302 and CVE-2024-53104 are listed as fixed in 5.15.172; 6.1.117, 6.6.61 and 6.11.8 were tagged minutes later).

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  5. Fixed for all versions

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    kernel.org ChangeLog-6.12.1CuratedQuote verified

    Date: Fri Nov 22 15:30:26 2024 +0100

    Top entry of the Linux 6.12.1 ChangeLog is the release commit 'Linux 6.12.1' dated Fri Nov 22 15:30:26 2024 +0100 = 2024-11-22 14:30 UTC (commit author date). Last listed fix of the two: CVE-2024-53104's 6.12 branch fix. CVE-2024-50302 was fixed in 6.12 mainline (2024-11-17) and in 4.19.324/5.4.286/5.10.230 (2024-11-17); CVE-2024-53104's 4.19/5.4/5.10 fixes landed 2024-11-17 as well.

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Affected products

  • Linux kernel USB Video Class driver (uvcvideo) and HID core, before 4.19.324, 5.4.286, 5.10.230, 5.15.172, 6.1.117, 6.6.61, 6.11.8, 6.12.1
How we built this timeline

Kernel moment model: vendor/world = the kernel CNA's CVE publication (first security-labelled public signal); First fix = first stable or mainline release containing the fix (R2: counts even though it precedes the CVE);

Fixed for all versions = the last of the stable/LTS releases the CVE record lists as fixed, provided every then-supported affected line is listed (R6). Release dates come from the kernel.org ChangeLog files (the 'Linux <version>' release commit).

Downstream lag (Android, distributions) is not graded here. Grouping (R7): Amnesty International (28 Feb 2025) says Google researchers identified 'at least three zero-day vulnerabilities likely exploited as part of this Cellebrite exploit chain' (CVE-2024-53104, CVE-2024-53197, CVE-2024-50302) and that it 'first found traces of this Cellebrite USB exploit used in a separate case in mid-2024'.

CVE-2024-50302 (CVE published 19 Nov 2024) and CVE-2024-53104 (2 Dec 2024) were disclosed 13 days apart and fixed in the same 14 Nov 2024 stable releases, so they stay one incident. CVE-2024-53197 (CVE published 27 Dec 2024, fixes 5 Dec 2024..14) was disclosed more than 14 days later and is now its own incident, linux-kernel-cve-2024-53197 (correction pass 23 Oct 2026). exploited before a fix=true (R4): exploitation began in mid-2024, before the November 2024 fixes, although it was only made public afterwards (Android bulletin 1 Feb 2025, Amnesty 28 Feb 2025); exposure is zero because nothing was public before the fixes.

KEV dates: CVE-2024-53104 5 Feb 2025, CVE-2024-50302 4 Mar 2025 (kev_added holds the primary's date). Severity 7.8 is the CISA-ADP score for CVE-2024-53104 (CVE-2024-50302: 5.5).

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