Vulnerability · Published Jun 8, 2024 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2024-37408
High 7.3
In plain English
A high-severity improper authentication in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 20% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
fprintd through 1.94.3 lacks a security attention mechanism, and thus unexpected actions might be authorized by "auth sufficient pam_fprintd.so" for Sudo. NOTE: the supplier disputes this because they believe issue resolution would involve modifying the PAM configuration to restrict pam_fprintd.so to front-ends that implement a proper attention mechanism, not modifying pam_fprintd.so or fprintd.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-287 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/05/30/3
- https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fprint/2024-May/001231.html
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libfprint/fprintd/-/releases
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/13/2
- [oss-security] 20240613 Re: Security vulnerability in fprintd mailing-list
- [oss-security] 20240614 Re: Security vulnerability in fprintd mailing-list
- [oss-security] 20240614 Re: Security vulnerability in fprintd mailing-list
- [oss-security] 20240614 Re: Security vulnerability in fprintd mailing-list