CVE-2024-10041

Oct. 23, 2024, 3:12 p.m.

CVSS Score

4.7 / 10

Product(s) Impacted

PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules)

Description

A vulnerability was found in PAM. The secret information is stored in memory, where the attacker can trigger the victim program to execute by sending characters to its standard input (stdin). As this occurs, the attacker can train the branch predictor to execute an ROP chain speculatively. This flaw could result in leaked passwords, such as those found in /etc/shadow while performing authentications.

Weaknesses

Date

Published: Oct. 23, 2024, 2:15 p.m.

Last Modified: Oct. 23, 2024, 3:12 p.m.

Status : Undergoing Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

secalert@redhat.com

CVSS Data

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

LOW

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score
4.7
Exploitability Score
1.0
Impact Score
3.6
Base Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS Vector String

The CVSS vector string provides an in-depth view of the vulnerability metrics.

View Vector String

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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