🛡️ CVE-2024-10394 — openafs

🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-305 NVD
7.8
CVSS Score
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Description

A local user can bypass the OpenAFS PAG (Process Authentication Group) throttling mechanism in Unix clients, allowing the user to create a PAG using an existing id number, effectively joining the PAG and letting the user steal the credentials in that PAG.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Affected software

CVE-2024-10394 is recorded against 1 package.

  • openafs

Timeline and source

Published on 14 November 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

www.openafs.org
www.openafs.org
lists.debian.org

CVE-2024-10394 on other distributions

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Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-305
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-11-14
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
openafs — —

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