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CVE-2024-9313

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-9313 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting the canonical authd PAM module prior to version 0.3.5. It allows broker-managed users to impersonate other users managed by the same broker, enabling them to perform any PAM operation, including authentication. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (High), this vulnerability is network-exploitable with low privileges and complexity, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.3.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:canonical:authd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.58%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
44.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0058 is in the 34th percentile among its peer group of 17,823 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/ubuntu/authdFixed in: 0.0.0-20240930103526-63e527496b01
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/ubuntu/authdFixed in: 0.3.5
github_advisoryvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

goGHSA-x5q3-c8rm-w787high

PAM module may allow accessing with the credentials of another user

Oct 3, 2024

References

github.com / ubuntu/authd/security/advisories/GHSA-x5q3-c8rm-w787
Vendor Advisory
cve.org / CVERecord
Third Party Advisory