What is CVE-2024-47191?

CVE-2024-47191 is a high-severity vulnerability in N/a, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 7.1/10. Published 2024-10-09.

How severe is CVE-2024-47191?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.1 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-47191 known to be exploited?

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

Path Traversal in N/a

CVE-2024-47191

pam_oath.so in oath-toolkit 2.6.7 through 2.6.11 before 2.6.12 allows root privilege escalation because, in the context of PAM code running as root, it mishandles usersfile access, such as by calling fchown in the presence of a symlink.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

Published 2024-10-09 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.1 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (25.0th percentile), scored 2026-10-05.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 25th percentile — 25.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

Public proof-of-concept exploits

fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-47191?: CVE-2024-47191 is a high-severity vulnerability in N/a, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 7.1/10. Published 2024-10-09.
How severe is CVE-2024-47191?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.1 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-47191 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.