CVE-2024-10041 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-10041 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2319212

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

4.7