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CVE-2024-58250

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-04-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-426

Description

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

Affected products

• ppp: before 2.5.2 — fixed in 2.5.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: ppp 2.5.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/ppp-project/ppp/commit/0a66ad22e54c72690ec2a29a019767c55c5281fc
• https://github.com/ppp-project/ppp/compare/v2.5.1...v2.5.2
• https://ppp.samba.org

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