CVE-2024-42934

Publication date 9 October 2024

Last updated 11 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

OpenIPMI before 2.0.36 has an out-of-bounds array access (for authentication type) in the ipmi_sim simulator, resulting in denial of service or (with very low probability) authentication bypass or code execution.

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Why is this CVE low priority?

Only affects IPMI simulator

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
openipmi	26.04 LTS resolute	Not affected
	25.10 questing	Needs evaluation
	25.04 plucky	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.10 oracular	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.04 LTS noble	Needs evaluation
	22.04 LTS jammy	Needs evaluation
	20.04 LTS focal	Ignored end of standard support, was needs-triage
	18.04 LTS bionic	Needs evaluation
	16.04 LTS xenial	Needs evaluation
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of ESM support, was needs-triage

Notes

mdeslaur

This issue only affects the IPMI simulator ipmi_sim, not the main library.

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
openipmi	Upstream: https://sourceforge.net/p/openipmi/code/ci/b52e8e2538b2b48ef6b63bff12b5cc9e2d52eff1/ Upstream: https://sourceforge.net/p/openipmi/code/ci/4c129d0540f3578ecc078d8612bbf84b6cd24c87/

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.0 · Medium
Attack vector	Adjacent
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	Low
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

References

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-42934