Bug 1226143 (CVE-2024-37408)

Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2024-37408: fprintd: lack of security attention mechanism leads to the authorization of unexpected actions when using sudo configured to approve access with pam_fprintd
Product: [Novell Products] SUSE Security Incidents Reporter: SMASH SMASH <smash_bz>
Component: IncidentsAssignee: Alejandro Bonilla <abonilla>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity: Major    
Priority: P3 - Medium CC: camila.matos
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: Other   
OS: Other   
URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/409737/
Whiteboard: CVSSv3.1:SUSE:CVE-2024-37408:7.3:(AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Found By: Security Response Team Services Priority:
Business Priority: Blocker: ---
Marketing QA Status: --- IT Deployment: ---

Description SMASH SMASH 2024-06-10 11:23:04 UTC
fprintd through 1.94.3 lacks a security attention mechanism, and thus unexpected actions might be authorized by "auth sufficient pam_fprintd.so" for Sudo.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2024-37408
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-37408
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libfprint/fprintd/-/releases
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fprint/2024-May/001231.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/05/30/3