CVE-2024-10041: Insecure Storage of Sensitive Information
A vulnerability was found in PAM. The secret information is stored in memory, where the attacker can trigger the victim program to execute by sending characters to its standard input (stdin). As this occurs, the attacker can train the branch predictor to execute an ROP chain speculatively. This flaw could result in leaked passwords, such as those found in /etc/shadow while performing authentications.
CVE-2024-10041: Insecure Storage of Sensitive Information
Description
A vulnerability was found in PAM. The secret information is stored in memory, where the attacker can trigger the victim program to execute by sending characters to its standard input (stdin). As this occurs, the attacker can train the branch predictor to execute an ROP chain speculatively. This flaw could result in leaked passwords, such as those found in /etc/shadow while performing authentications.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- redhat
- Date Reserved
- 2024-10-16T16:13:54.632Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
Threat ID: 691f5c4ee672cd9080e8d495
Added to database: 11/20/2025, 6:22:06 PM
Last updated: 11/20/2025, 6:22:49 PM
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