CVE-2025-24531

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-24531
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-24531.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-24531
Aliases
  • GHSA-7mf6-rg36-qgch
Downstream
DEBIAN (1)
openSUSE (1)
SUSE (2)
UBUNTU (1)
Related
openSUSE (1)
SUSE (2)
Published
2026-01-16T00:00:00Z
Modified
2026-10-21T02:52:16Z
Severity
  • 6.7 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

In OpenSC pam_pkcs11 before 0.6.13, pam_sm_authenticate() wrongly returns PAM_IGNORE in many error situations (such as an error triggered by a smartcard before login), allowing authentication bypass.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner":  "mitre",
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-393"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/24xxx/CVE-2025-24531.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/opensc/pam_pkcs11

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/opensc/pam_pkcs11
Events
Introduced
bb2e3f3a95e44fdf44b0d5a4b377db3179021380
Fixed
b8dbe6370d36a6a11a466d5f0ee285804103e030
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "0.6.12"
                },
                {
                    "fixed":  "0.6.13"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "AFFECTED_FIELD",
            "strategy":  "StandardRange"
        },
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "11"
                },
                {
                    "fixed":  "0.6.13"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "DESCRIPTION"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

pam_pkcs11-0.*
pam_pkcs11-0.6.12

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-24531.json"