CVE-2024-29038 | tpm2 does not detect if quote was not generated by TPM

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tpm2-tools is the source repository for the Trusted Platform Module (TPM2.0) tools. A malicious attacker can generate arbitrary quote data which is not detected by `tpm2 checkquote`. This issue was patched in version 5.7.

Published: 2024-06-28 Last update: 2025-11-04 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2024-29038 is rated Exploit Available (50/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.11%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2024-29038

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2024-29038

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-01-27 0.15% 0.11% -0.04%
2 2025-12-28 0.07% 0.15% +0.08%
3 2025-10-23 — 0.07% —

Full EPSS history (8 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2024-29038

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.3 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:L)
They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:C)
Breaking this can reach past the original component and bite other resources—bigger blast radius.
Confidentiality (C:L)
Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 2.5 1.4 [email protected]
3.3 3.1 LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:L)
They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:L)
A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:L)
Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 1.8 1.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2024-29038

OS Trackers for CVE-2024-29038

vendor priority summary link
alpine — CVE-2024-29038: 1 source package rows (tpm2-tools); 3 state rows across 3 repos (3.21-community, 3.22-community, edge-community); fixed 3, open 0. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2024-29038
debian not yet assigned CVE-2024-29038 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (tpm2-tools), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 3, open 2. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-29038
redhat low — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-29038
suse medium CVE-2024-29038 severity moderate: SUSE including 252 source package names (2.1.3-4.14:libefivar1-38-3.1, amazon/suse-sles-15-sp1-chost-byos-v20210304-hvm-ssd-x86_64, …), 446 product×package rows across 122 product lines (Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/base-os-container, Image SL-Micro, … (122 product lines)): Known Affected 231, Fixed 190, Known Not Affected 25. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-29038/
ubuntu medium CVE-2024-29038 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (tpm2-tools), 10 status rows across 10 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, upstream, xenial): needed 4, ignored 3, not-affected 2, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-29038

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2024-29038

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
tpm2-tools_project tpm2-tools >= 4.1, < 5.5.1 cpe:2.3:a:tpm2-tools_project:tpm2-tools:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
tpm2-tools_project tpm2-tools > 5.6.1, < 5.7 cpe:2.3:a:tpm2-tools_project:tpm2-tools:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2024-29038

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