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🛡️ OESA-2024-2283 — openipmi (CVE-2024-42934)

🟡 CVSS 5.0 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
5.0
CVSS Score
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Description

OpenIPMI security update

This is the OpenIPMI library, a library that makes simplifies building complex IPMI management software.IPMI is a specification detailing how to detect and manage sensors in a system. It also specifies some chassis-level thing like power control,reset, FRU (Field Replaceable Unit) information, and watchdogs.

Security Fix(es):

OpenIPMI before 2.0.36 has an out-of-bounds array access (for authentication type) in the ipmi_sim simulator, resulting in denial of service or (with very low probability) authentication bypass or code execution.(CVE-2024-42934)

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached from an adjacent network, attack complexity is high, 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

OESA-2024-2283 is recorded against 1 package.

  • openipmi (fixed in 2.0.29-3.oe2003sp4)

Timeline and source

Published on 18 October 2024 and last revised on 18 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

www.openeuler.org (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-10-18
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-18
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
openipmi — 2.0.29-3.oe2003sp4

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