CVE-2024-47191

Publication date 4 October 2024

Last updated 30 May 2025


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.1 · High

Score breakdown

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.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
oath-toolkit 25.04 plucky
Vulnerable
24.10 oracular
Fixed 2.6.11-3ubuntu1
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 2.6.11-2.1ubuntu0.1
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 2.6.7-3ubuntu0.1
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected

Notes


mdeslaur

The libpam-oath binary package is in universe


juliaphoebe

Introduced by 60d9902b5c20f27e70f8e9c816bfdc0467567e1a (oath-toolkit-2.6.7)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.1 · High
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-7059-1
    • OATH Toolkit vulnerability
    • 9 October 2024
    • USN-7059-2
    • OATH Toolkit vulnerability
    • 17 October 2024

Other references