CVE-2024-58250

Publication date 22 April 2025

Last updated 11 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

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

Read the notes from the security team

Mitigation

This issue can be mitigated by not using the promptprog configuration option.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
ppp	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.10 oracular	Ignored end of life, was ignored [see notes]
	24.04 LTS noble	Ignored see notes
	22.04 LTS jammy	Ignored see notes
	20.04 LTS focal	Ignored see notes
	18.04 LTS bionic	Ignored see notes
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored see notes
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored see notes

Notes

rodrigo-zaiden

the fix is to remove the passpromt feature, which could break any existing usage that depends on this specific feature.

mdeslaur

This feature is not enabled by default. We will not fix this issue in stable releases, we recommend not using the feature if this is an issue in your environment.

Patch details

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

Package	Patch details
ppp	Upstream: 0a66ad2

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.3 · Critical
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H