Microsoft security update for CVE-2024-2905 — azl3 rpm-ostree 2024.4-3 on Azure Linux 3.0
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products1
- azl3 rpm-ostree 2024.4-3 on Azure Linux 3.0
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 1 update
1 row: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 2024.4-3 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2024-2905
- EchelonGraph score
- 6.2 MEDIUM
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
A security vulnerability has been discovered within rpm-ostree, pertaining to the /etc/shadow file in default builds having the world-readable bit enabled. This issue arises from the default permissions being set at a higher level than recommended, potentially exposing sensitive authentication data to unauthorized access.
Published by Red Hat, Inc., the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2024-2905, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).