CVE-2024-10041: Insecure Storage of Sensitive Information
Source CVE Database V5
Not known to be exploited · CVSS 4.7 Medium.
Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 17:16 UTC
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 18% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NExploitation evidence
Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 23 Oct 2024
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors
A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 26 Oct 2026.
What to do
AI-suggested
Official patches are available from Red Hat for affected PAM packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and 9. Users should apply the updates as described in Red Hat advisories RHSA-2024:10379 and RHSA-2024:11250 to remediate this vulnerability. Refer to https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 for update instructions. No additional mitigation is required beyond applying the vendor-provided fixes.
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.
References
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:10379 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:11250 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9941 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-10041 (opens in a new tab)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2319212 (opens in a new tab)