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Red Hat: CVE-2024-37408: fprintd: unexpected actions might be authorized with fingerprint reader

Name: Red Hat: CVE-2024-37408: fprintd: unexpected actions might be authorized with fingerprint reader
Creator: Red Hat
Published: 2024-06-08T00:00:00.000Z
Keywords: CVE, Red Hat, 2024, 37408, fprintd, no-fix-redhat-rpm-package, Severity 1

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:N/I:N/A:N)

Published

Jun 8, 2024

Added

Jul 9, 2025

Modified

Jul 10, 2025

Description

fprintd through 1.94.3 lacks a security attention mechanism, and thus unexpected actions might be authorized by "auth sufficient pam_fprintd.so" for Sudo. NOTE: the supplier disputes this because they believe issue resolution would involve modifying the PAM configuration to restrict pam_fprintd.so to front-ends that implement a proper attention mechanism, not modifying pam_fprintd.so or fprintd.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package

References

NVD-CVE-2024-37408

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