# CVE-2024-27015: netfilter: flowtable: incorrect pppoe tuple

> Incorrect PPPoE tuple handling in Linux kernel netfilter flowtable causes packet mismatch, forcing traffic to the slower classical forwarding path.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 1 May 2024
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** AZL-42237, BELL-CVE-2024-27015, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-27015, GHSA-q3m3-7f4j-8pp7, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-27015

## What is CVE-2024-27015?

CVE-2024-27015 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 1 May 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

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

netfilter: flowtable: incorrect pppoe tuple

pppoe traffic reaching ingress path does not match the flowtable entry
because the pppoe header is expected to be at the network header offset.
This bug causes a mismatch in the flow table lookup, so pppoe packets
enter the classical forwarding path.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-27015?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Fedoraproject Fedora, Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-27015?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2024-27015 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-27015 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-27015 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-27015 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 1 May 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-27015 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Fedoraproject Fedora. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-27015/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-27015/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-27015
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-27015
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-27015

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-27015/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.