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Vulnerability · Published Feb 6, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2024-22365

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in the pam package (AlmaLinux). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 40% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 60.1% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

linux-pam (aka Linux PAM) before 1.6.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (blocked login process) via mkfifo because the openat call (for protect_dir) lacks O_DIRECTORY.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:8pam1.3.1-33.el8ALSA-2024:3163
AlmaLinux:9pam1.5.1-19.el9ALSA-2024:2438
AlmaLinux:8pam-devel1.3.1-33.el8ALSA-2024:3163
AlmaLinux:9pam-devel1.5.1-19.el9ALSA-2024:2438
AlmaLinux:9pam-docs1.5.1-19.el9ALSA-2024:2438
Alpine:v3.20linux-pam1.6.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2024-22365
Alpine:v3.21linux-pam1.6.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2024-22365
Alpine:v3.22linux-pam1.6.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2024-22365
Alpine:v3.23linux-pam1.6.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2024-22365
Alpine:v3.24linux-pam1.6.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2024-22365
Debian:12pam1.5.2-6+deb12u2DEBIAN-CVE-2024-22365
Debian:13pam1.5.3-4DEBIAN-CVE-2024-22365
Debian:14pam1.5.3-4DEBIAN-CVE-2024-22365
Rocky Linux:8pam0:1.3.1-33.el8RLSA-2024:3163
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSpam1.4.0-11ubuntu2.4UBUNTU-CVE-2024-22365
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSpam1.4.0-11ubuntu2.4USN-6588-1

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a n/a n/a

Weakness: CWE-664 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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