What is CVE-2024-10396?

CVE-2024-10396 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Openafs, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2024-11-14.

How severe is CVE-2024-10396?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-10396 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Openafs

CVE-2024-10396

An authenticated user can provide a malformed ACL to the fileserver's StoreACL RPC, causing the fileserver to crash, possibly expose uninitialized memory, and possibly store garbage data in the audit log. Malformed ACLs provided in respons…

EPSS: 0.006 (42.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Openafs — versions 1.9.0
The Openafs Foundation — versions 1.0, 1.8.0, 1.9.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

Public proof-of-concept exploits

w4zu/Debian_

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-10396?: CVE-2024-10396 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Openafs, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2024-11-14.
How severe is CVE-2024-10396?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-10396 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.