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UBUNTU-CVE-2025-29906 (CVE-2025-29906)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2025-04-29 23:16 – Updated: 2026-10-17 09:31 – Source website

Details

Finit is a fast init for Linux systems. Versions starting from 3.0-rc1 and prior to version 4.11 bundle an implementation of getty for the tty configuration directive that can bypass /bin/login, i.e., a user can log in as any user without authentication. This issue has been patched in version 4.11.

Severity

8.6 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-29906	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-29906	REPORT
	https://github.com/troglobit/finit/commit/6528628…	REPORT
	https://github.com/troglobit/finit/security/advis…	REPORT

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CVE-2025-29906 (GCVE-0-2025-29906)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-29 22:17 – Updated: 2025-04-30 17:33

Title

Finit bundled getty can bypass /bin/login

Summary

Finit is a fast init for Linux systems. Versions starting from 3.0-rc1 and prior to version 4.11 bundle an implementation of getty for the `tty` configuration directive that can bypass `/bin/login`, i.e., a user can log in as any user without authentication. This issue has been patched in version 4.11.

Severity

8.6 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-04-30 17:33 UTC

CWE

CWE-287 - Improper Authentication

Assigner

GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7806 records in the last 180 days details

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/troglobit/finit/security/advis…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/troglobit/finit/commit/6528628…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
troglobit	finit	Affected: >= 3.0-rc1, < 4.11

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