CVE-2024-10394

Theft of credentials in Unix client PAGs

State: Published
Severity: 8.4 High
Published: Nov 14, 2024
Updated: Dec 23, 2025
Reserved: Oct 25, 2024

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	8.4 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	fedora

Weaknesses

CWE-305

Affected Products

Product	Versions
OpenAFSThe OpenAFS Foundation	1.0 to before 1.6.24Affected 1.8.0 to before 1.8.12.2Affected 1.9.0 to before 1.9.1Affected

References

https://www.openafs.org/pages/security/OPENAFS-SA-2024-001.txt
https://www.openafs.org/security
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00019.html

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