CVE-2024-58250

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

Published: 2025-04-22 Last update: 2026-04-15 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2024-58250 is rated Moderate Risk (40.3/100): CVSS Critical severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.19%). Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2024-58250

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 2026-06-15 0.10% 0.19% +0.09%
2 2026-02-16 0.01% 0.10% +0.09%
3 2025-04-22 0.01%

Full EPSS history (3 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2024-58250

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
9.3 3.1 CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H 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:H)
Serious risk that confidential data gets exposed in a big way.
Integrity (I:H)
They could widely tamper with or forge data—trust in the data is badly hurt.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
2.5 6.0 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2024-58250

OS Trackers for CVE-2024-58250

vendor priority summary link
alpine critical CVE-2024-58250: 1 source package rows (ppp); 20 state rows across 5 repos (3.19-main, 3.20-main, 3.21-main, 3.22-main, edge-main); fixed 0, open 20. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2024-58250
debian not yet assigned CVE-2024-58250 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (ppp), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 3, open 2. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-58250
ubuntu medium CVE-2024-58250 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (ppp), 9 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, oracular, plucky, trusty, upstream, xenial): ignored 7, not-affected 1, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-58250

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2024-58250

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
No affected products in dataset.

References for CVE-2024-58250

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