What is CVE-2024-58250?

CVE-2024-58250 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Samba Ppp, classified under Untrusted Search Path. CVSS score: 9.3/10. Published 2025-04-22.

How severe is CVE-2024-58250?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.3 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Samba Ppp

CVE-2024-58250

The passprompt plugin in pppd in ppp before 2.5.2 mishandles privileges.

Published 2025-04-22 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.3 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.002 (12.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 13th percentile — 12.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.002 · newest: 0.002 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Samba Ppp — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-426 — Untrusted Search Path

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-58250?: CVE-2024-58250 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Samba Ppp, classified under Untrusted Search Path. CVSS score: 9.3/10. Published 2025-04-22.
How severe is CVE-2024-58250?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.3 out of 10.