🛡️ CVE-2024-10041 on Ubuntu 20.04 (Root.io) — pam

🟡 CVSS 5.0 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit OSV

5.0

CVSS Score

0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

CVE-2024-10041 in pam - Patched by Root

Root has patched CVE-2024-10041 in the pam package for Root:Ubuntu:20.04. Multiple fixed versions available.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2024-10041 as tracked by Ubuntu 20.04 (Root.io), for the package pam. The fix is available in version 1.3.1-5ubuntu4.7.root.io.4; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is high, 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 none, availability none. (rating taken from the base CVE record.)

Weakness class

ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2004-CVE-2024-10041 is classified as CWE-922: Insecure Storage of Sensitive Information. Sensitive information is kept somewhere without the protection its sensitivity requires.

Affected software

ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2004-CVE-2024-10041 is recorded against 2 packages.

pam (fixed in 1.3.1-5ubuntu4.7.root.io.4)
rootio-pam (fixed in 1.3.1-5ubuntu4.7.root.io.4)

Timeline and source

Published on 20 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

CVE-2024-10041 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

BellSoft Base record Debian Debian 11 (Root.io)Debian 12 (Root.io)Ubuntu 22.04 (Root.io)Ubuntu 24.04 (Root.io)Ubuntu

Details

Severity MEDIUM

CVSS Score 5.0

CVSS Vector N/A

CWE N/A

Public Exploit ✅ No

Source OSV

Published 2026-08-20

Updated 2026-08-20

Modified 2026-08-20

Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
pam	—	1.3.1-5ubuntu4.7.root.io.4
rootio-pam	—	1.3.1-5ubuntu4.7.root.io.4

References

N/A

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