CVE-2024-10041

Pam: libpam: libpam vulnerable to read hashed password

At a glance

Severity
MEDIUM 4.7
EPSS
EPSS 0.27 % · percentile 18 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
redhat
NVD status
Modified

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.

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.7CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nredhat
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.7CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NNVD · secalert@redhat.com (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
pamaffected 1.6.0 < 1.6.0
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8unaffected 0:1.3.1-36.el8_10 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9unaffected 0:1.5.1-21.el9_5 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9unaffected 0:1.5.1-21.el9_5 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Supportunaffected 0:1.5.1-21.el9_4 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

References

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD