CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-10041

4.7 MEDIUM Published 2024-10-23 Modified 2026-06-30 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2024-10-23
Last modified
2026-06-30
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-922

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.

Affected configurations

• linux-pam linux-pam

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-922 Insecure Storage of Sensitive Information weakness

References