CVE-2024-47191 Information

Description

pam_oath.so in oath-toolkit 2.6.7 through 2.6.11 before 2.6.12 allows root privilege escalation because in the context of PAM code running as root it mishandles usersfile access such as by calling fchown in the presence of a symlink.

Reference

https://gitlab.com/oath-toolkit/oath-toolkit/-/issues/43 https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/10/04/2 https://security.opensuse.org/2024/10/04/oath-toolkit-vulnerability.html https://www.nongnu.org/oath-toolkit/security/CVE-2024-47191 https://gitlab.com/oath-toolkit/oath-toolkit/-/commit/60d9902b5c20f27e70f8e9c816bfdc0467567e1a https://gitlab.com/oath-toolkit/oath-toolkit/-/commit/3235a52f6b87cd1c5da6508f421ac261f5e33a70 https://gitlab.com/oath-toolkit/oath-toolkit/-/commit/3271139989fde35ab0163b558fc29e80c3a280e5 https://gitlab.com/oath-toolkit/oath-toolkit/-/commit/95ef255e6a401949ce3f67609bf8aac2029db418