PT-2024-16242

CVE-2024-10394

Published

2024-11-14

Updated

2025-09-08

Description by

CVSS 4.0

8.4

High

MetricsAV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenAFS (affected versions not specified)

Description A local user can bypass the OpenAFS PAG (Process Authentication Group) throttling mechanism in Unix clients, allowing the user to create a PAG using an existing id number, effectively joining the PAG and letting the user steal the credentials in that PAG.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploitability

Exploit

Impacts

Researchers

Andrew Deason

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-190: Integer Overflow or Wraparound

CWE-305: Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness

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