CVE-2024-28085wall in util-linux through 2.40, often installed with setgid tty permissions, allows escape sequences to be sent to other users' terminals…
- 3.3LowCVSS base score
- 2.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 17% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- YesPublic exploitsa reference or SSVC says so
Description
wall in util-linux through 2.40, often installed with setgid tty permissions, allows escape sequences to be sent to other users' terminals through argv. (Specifically, escape sequences received from stdin are blocked, but escape sequences received from argv are not blocked.) There may be plausible scenarios where this leads to account takeover.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 24 days later
· 24 days later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Low3.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Low3.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.2% · top 17% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References18
- https://people.rit.edu/sjf5462/6831711781/wall_2_27_2024.txt (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/security/advisories/GHSA-xv2h-c6ww-mrjq (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/27/5 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/skyler-ferrante/CVE-2024-28085 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20240407 [SECURITY] [DLA 3782-1] util-linux security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20240328 Re: CVE-2024-28085: Escape sequence injection in util-linux wall (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20240327 Re: CVE-2024-28085: Escape sequence injection in util-linux wall (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20240328 Re: CVE-2024-28085: Escape sequence injection in util-linux wall (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20240327 Re: CVE-2024-28085: Escape sequence injection in util-linux wall (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20240327 Re: CVE-2024-28085: Escape sequence injection in util-linux wall (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20240328 Re: Re: CVE-2024-28085: Escape sequence injection in util-linux wall (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20240328 Re: CVE-2024-28085: Escape sequence injection in util-linux wall (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20240327 CVE-2024-28085: Escape sequence injection in util-linux wall (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240531-0003/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Mar/35 (opens in a new tab)
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-082556.html (opens in a new tab)
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-202008.html (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2024-25252 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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