7.1

CVE-2024-47191: oath-toolkit

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AliasesMGASA-2024-0335RHSA-2025:3635UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47191
Published 09-10-2024Last modified 18-10-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-47191 is a high (CVSS 7.1) vulnerability in oath-toolkit. EPSS estimates a 0.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 27.3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 7.1, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
7.1/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.34%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 3 · Related 1
RHSA-2025:4238RHSA-2025:4664RHSA-2025:9775USN-7059-2

Timeline

  1. 09-10-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 18-10-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

pam_oath.so in oath-toolkit 2.6.7 through 2.6.11 before 2.6.12 allows root privilege escalation because, in the context of PAM code running as root, it mishandles usersfile access, such as by calling fchown in the presence of a symlink.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 5 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.34%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

27%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.34% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Redhat68 products
  • ceph< 2:19.2.0-124.el9cp
  • ceph-base< 2:19.2.0-124.el9cp
  • ceph-base-debuginfo< 2:19.2.0-124.el9cp
  • ceph-common< 2:19.2.0-124.el9cp
  • ceph-common-debuginfo< 2:19.2.0-124.el9cp
Debian1 product
  • oath-toolkit< 2.6.7-3.1+deb12u1 | < 2.6.12-1
Mageia1 product
  • oath-toolkit< 2.6.7-1.1.mga9
Opensuse1 product
  • oath-toolkit&distro=openSUSE Tumbleweed< 2.6.11.12-1.1
Ubuntu1 product
  • oath-toolkitAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 2.6.7-3ubuntu0.1 | < 2.6.11-2.1ubuntu0.1

5 vendors · 72 products

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