CVE-2024-50306

Apache Traffic Server: Server process can fail to drop privilege

State: Published
Severity: 9.1 Critical
Published: Nov 14, 2024
Updated: Nov 3, 2025
Reserved: Oct 21, 2024

Description

Unchecked return value can allow Apache Traffic Server to retain privileges on startup.

This issue affects Apache Traffic Server: from 9.2.0 through 9.2.5, from 10.0.0 through 10.0.1.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 9.2.6 or 10.0.2, which fixes the issue.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.1 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-252 Unchecked Return Value

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Apache Traffic ServerApache Software Foundation	9.2.0 through 9.2.5Affected 10.0.0 through 10.0.1Affected

References

https://lists.apache.org/thread/y15fh6c7kyqvzm0f9odw7c5jh4r4np0yvendor-advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/02/msg00018.html

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