DEBIAN-CVE-2025-24531

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-24531
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-24531.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-24531
Upstream
Downstream
Published
2026-01-16T18:16:06Z
Modified
2026-09-01T20:05:45Z
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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:12 / pam-pkcs11

Package

Name
pam-pkcs11
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/pam-pkcs11?arch=source&distro=bookworm

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.6.12-1+deb12u1

Affected versions

0.*
0.6.12-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

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

Debian:13 / pam-pkcs11

Package

Name
pam-pkcs11
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/pam-pkcs11?arch=source&distro=trixie

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.6.13-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

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

Debian:14 / pam-pkcs11

Package

Name
pam-pkcs11
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/pam-pkcs11?arch=source&distro=forky

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.6.13-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

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