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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-30161

medium Nessus Plugin ID 249480

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

 - In Qt 6.5.4, 6.5.5, and 6.6.2, QNetworkReply header data might be accessed via a dangling pointer in Qt for WebAssembly (wasm). (Earlier and later versions are unaffected.) (CVE-2024-30161)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2024-30161

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-30161

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 249480

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2024_30161.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 8/15/2025

Updated: 7/29/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.1

Percentile: 6.95

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-30161

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:U/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:26.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qt6-base, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qtbase-opensource-src-gles, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt6-filesystem, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt6-rpm-macros, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt6-srpm-macros

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled, global_settings/vendor_unpatched, Host/OS/identifier

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/24/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-30161