CVE-2024-10041

medium

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.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2319212

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-10041

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9941

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:11250

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:10379

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-10-23

Updated: 2024-12-18

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.8

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

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.7

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

Severity: Medium