CVE-2024-37408fprintd through 1.94.3 lacks a security attention mechanism, and thus unexpected actions might be authorized by "auth sufficient…
- 7.3HighCVSS base score
- 0.27%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 80% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
fprintd through 1.94.3 lacks a security attention mechanism, and thus unexpected actions might be authorized by "auth sufficient pam_fprintd.so" for Sudo. NOTE: the supplier disputes this because they believe issue resolution would involve modifying the PAM configuration to restrict pam_fprintd.so to front-ends that implement a proper attention mechanism, not modifying pam_fprintd.so or fprintd.
Timeline
Published
- 3 months later
· 3 months 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 | High7.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | High7.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.27% · top 80% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References8
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/05/30/3 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fprint/2024-May/001231.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libfprint/fprintd/-/releases (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/13/2 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- [oss-security] 20240613 Re: Security vulnerability in fprintd (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20240614 Re: Security vulnerability in fprintd (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20240614 Re: Security vulnerability in fprintd (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20240614 Re: Security vulnerability in fprintd (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
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-2024-36642 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2024-37408)Record last updated .