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Vulnerability record · CVE-2024-10396 · published 14 November 2024

CVE-2024-10396: Openafs vulnerability

OOpenafs · Openafs

An authenticated user can provide a malformed ACL to the fileserver's StoreACL RPC, causing the fileserver to crash, possibly expose uninitialized memory, and possibly store garbage data in the audit log. Malformed ACLs provided in responses to client FetchACL RPCs can cause client processes to crash and possibly expose uninitialized memory into other ACLs stored on the server.

6.5 CVSS 3.1 Medium EPSS 0.56% · top 55.4% CWE-772 · CWE-772
6.5CVSS 3.1 base score
0.56%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
3References
17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

An authenticated user can provide a malformed ACL to the fileserver's StoreACL RPC, causing the fileserver to crash, possibly expose uninitialized memory, and possibly store garbage data in the audit log. Malformed ACLs provided in responses to client FetchACL RPCs can cause client processes to crash and possibly expose uninitialized memory into other ACLs stored on the server.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
https://www.openafs.org/pages/security/OPENAFS-SA-2024-002.txt
https://www.openafs.org/security
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00019.html

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2024-10396), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-10-02). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.