CVE-2025-29906 (GCVE-0-2025-29906)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-04-29 22:17
Modified
2025-04-30 17:33
Severity ?
8.6 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-287 - Improper Authentication
Summary
Finit is a fast init for Linux systems. Versions starting from 3.0-rc1 and prior to version 4.11 bundle an implementation of getty for the `tty` configuration directive that can bypass `/bin/login`, i.e., a user can log in as any user without authentication. This issue has been patched in version 4.11.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/troglobit/finit/commit/6528628b5c771c25ffa0cb1a46c6c89d9d0d69e0
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/troglobit/finit/security/advisories/GHSA-563g-p98j-mc9q
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
troglobit finit Version: >= 3.0-rc1, < 4.11
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