CVE-2024-47191

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-47191

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-47191.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202410-1

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed2.6.12-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed2.6.7-3.1+deb12u1
debian debianbullseyefixed0
debian debianforkyfixed2.6.12-1
debian debiansidfixed2.6.12-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2.6.12-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.