CVE-2024-10026 — A weak hashing algorithm and small sizes of seeds/secrets in Google's gVisor all

A weak hashing algorithm and small sizes of seeds/secrets in Google's gVisor allowed for a remote attacker to calculate a local IP address and a per-boot identifier that could aid in tracking of a device in certain circumstances.

01What is this vulnerability?

A weak hashing algorithm and small sizes of seeds/secrets in Google's gVisor allowed for a remote attacker to calculate a local IP address and a per-boot identifier that could aid in tracking of a device in certain circumstances.

02Affected products

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2025-01-30T19:12:27.994Z
• Last modified: 2025-02-24T11:50:42.192Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/google/gvisor/commit/f956b5ac17ae1f60a4d21999b59ba18c55f86d56
• github.com — https://github.com/google/gvisor/commit/e54bfde79278cafadedbf73c68ee10cb5982f2af
• github.com — https://github.com/google/gvisor/commit/83f75082e5b03fafca9201d9d9939028f712b0b2
• www.ndss-symposium.org — https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/2025-122-paper.pdf