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Untrusted Search Path

CVE-2024-58250

Severity High
Score 9.3/10

Summary

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

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • HIGH
  • CHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-426 - Untrusted Search Path

The application searches for critical resources using an externally-supplied search path that can point to resources that are not under the application's direct control.

References

Advisory Timeline

  • Published