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CVE-2024-10041

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-10041 describes a medium-severity vulnerability in PAM, affecting various Linux distributions including Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This flaw allows an attacker to speculatively execute an ROP chain by sending specific input to a victim program, leveraging secret information stored in memory. The attack requires local access and high attack complexity, but could lead to the leakage of sensitive data like passwords from /etc/shadow during authentication. Currently, there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:linux-pam:linux-pam:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.7MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.0
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.27%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
18.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0027 is in the 61st percentile among its peer group of 1,297 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.4 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (8)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 pam 1.5.1-7 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 1.5.1-7
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 17599-17084Fixed in: 1.5.3-4
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 19916-17086Fixed in: 1.5.1-7
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: azl3 pam 1.5.3-4 on Azure Linux 3.0Fixed in: 1.5.3-4
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: pam-0:1.3.1-36.el8_10
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: pam-0:1.5.1-21.el9_5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update SupportFixed in: pam-0:1.5.1-21.el9_4
View patch
redhatworkaround availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (2)

redhatCVE-2024-10041Moderate

pam: libpam: Libpam vulnerable to read hashed password

Oct 18, 2024
microsoft2024-Oct/CVE-2024-10041Moderate

Pam: libpam: libpam vulnerable to read hashed password

Oct 8, 2024

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2024:10379
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2024:11250
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2024:9941
access.redhat.com / security/cve/CVE-2024-10041
MitigationThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory