CVE-2024-9312: Canonical Authd

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Authd, through version 0.3.6, did not sufficiently randomize user IDs to prevent collisions. A local attacker who can register user names could spoof another user's ID and gain their privileges.

Affected products

  • Canonical Authd: before 0.3.6 (fixed in 0.3.6)

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