# CVE-2024-3049: Booth: specially crafted hash can lead to invalid hmac being accepted by booth server

- Severity: CVSS 5.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-06-06 · Updated: 2026-03-17

## Affected

- booth: 1.0-283.1
- booth: version range not reported
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## Description

A flaw was found in Booth, a cluster ticket manager. If a specially-crafted hash is passed to gcry_md_get_algo_dlen(), it may allow an invalid HMAC to be accepted by the Booth server.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on booth, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3657
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3658
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3659
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3660
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3661
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4400
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4411
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-3049
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2272082
- https://github.com/ClusterLabs/booth/pull/142

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