CVE-2024-38394

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-06-16 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Mismatches in interpreting USB authorization policy between GNOME Settings Daemon (GSD) through 46.0 and the Linux kernel's underlying device matching logic allow a physically proximate attacker to access some unintended Linux kernel USB functionality, such as USB device-specific kernel modules and filesystem implementations. NOTE: the GSD supplier indicates that consideration of a mitigation for this within GSD would be in the context of "a new feature, not a CVE."

References

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-settings-daemon/-/issues/780
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-settings-daemon/-/issues/780#note_2047914
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-settings-daemon/-/tags
https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/advisories/usbguard-bypass
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-settings-daemon/-/issues/780
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-settings-daemon/-/issues/780#note_2047914
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-settings-daemon/-/tags
https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/advisories/usbguard-bypass

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