CVE-2024-47191: Nongnu Oath Toolkit

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

pam_oath.so in oath-toolkit 2.6.7 through 2.6.11 before 2.6.12 allows root privilege escalation because, in the context of PAM code running as root, it mishandles usersfile access, such as by calling fchown in the presence of a symlink.

Affected products

• Nongnu Oath Toolkit: from 2.6.7, before 2.6.12 (fixed in 2.6.12)

Published 2024-10-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.