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high 7.5

CVE-2017-7524 json

tpm2-tools versions before 1.1.1 are vulnerable to a password leak due to transmitting password in plaintext from client to server when gen…

published 2017-06-27 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-16541

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.2%
EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 69%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

tpm2-tools versions before 1.1.1 are vulnerable to a password leak due to transmitting password in plaintext from client to server when generating HMAC.

Patch / fix

  • tpm2-tools Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.1.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-7524

  • tpm2.0-tools openSUSE Tumbleweed 5.1.1-3.2

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11471-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-7524 updated cvss 5.3

tpm2-tools: Sending password in plaintext for HMAC generation on server

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 tpm2-tools
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 69% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • TPM 2.0 Tools tpm2-tools

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.