cve-2024-10963
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-11-07 16:02
Modified
2024-11-11 23:37
Severity ?
7.4 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Summary
Pam: improper hostname interpretation in pam_access leads to access control bypass
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-10963
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2324291
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4     cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4
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