🛡️ CVE-2024-38394 on Debian — gnome-settings-daemon

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV

N/A

CVSS Score

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Description

Mismatches in interpreting USB authorization policy between GNOME Settings Daemon (GSD) through 46.0 and the Linux kernel's underlying device matching logic allow a physically proximate attacker to access some unintended Linux kernel USB functionality, such as USB device-specific kernel modules and filesystem implementations. NOTE: the GSD supplier indicates that consideration of a mitigation for this within GSD would be in the context of "a new feature, not a CVE."

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2024-38394 as tracked by Debian, for the package gnome-settings-daemon. No fixed version has been recorded for this distribution yet.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

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

Affected software

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-38394 is recorded against 1 package.

gnome-settings-daemon

Timeline and source

Published on 16 June 2024 and last revised on 4 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security-tracker.debian.org (Advisory)

CVE-2024-38394 on other distributions

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Base record Ubuntu

Details

Severity Unknown

CVSS Score N/A

CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

CWE N/A

Public Exploit ✅ No

Source OSV

Published 2024-06-16

Updated 2026-08-20

Modified 2026-08-04

Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
gnome-settings-daemon	—	—

References

ADVISORY https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-38394

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