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

published 2025-04-22 18 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2025-12338

cvss: 9.3; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.2%; EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 14%
public exploits: 0; none known

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 distros 1 links 1

Samba ppp 2.5.2

ppp Debian 14, Debian 13 2.5.2-1+1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-58250

github.com/ppp-project/ppp@0a66ad2 commit

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total
Assessed: 18 mo ago (2025-04-22)

Exploit prediction

0.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 14% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	9.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

Samba ppp

Classification

Weakness

CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path

References

Sources

CVE List CVE-2024-58250
NVD CVE-2024-58250

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.

Summary