Booth: specially crafted hash can lead to invalid hmac being accepted by booth server

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.

Timeline

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.53% · top 55% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.9.

Weakness

• CWE-345: Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-345 and its CVEs

Affected products

• booth

  • affected 1.0-283.1

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

  • unaffected 0:1.1-1.el8_10.1 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support

  • unaffected 0:1.0-199.1.ac1d34c.git.el8_4.2 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Telecommunications Update Service

  • unaffected 0:1.0-199.1.ac1d34c.git.el8_4.2 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions

  • unaffected 0:1.0-199.1.ac1d34c.git.el8_4.2 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Telecommunications Update Service

  • unaffected 0:1.0-199.1.ac1d34c.git.el8_6.2 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP Solutions

  • unaffected 0:1.0-199.1.ac1d34c.git.el8_6.2 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support

  • unaffected 0:1.0-283.1.9d4029a.git.el8_8.1 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

  • unaffected 0:1.1-1.el9_4.1 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions

  • unaffected 0:1.0-251.3.bfb2f92.git.el9_0.2 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support

  • unaffected 0:1.0-283.1.9d4029a.git.el9_2.1 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

  All versions: unknown

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

  All versions: affected

What to do

Workaround: Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.

References (13)

• RHSA-2024:3657 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2024:3658 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2024:3659 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2024:3660 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2024:3661 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2024:4400 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2024:4411 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-3049 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHBZ#2272082 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• https://github.com/ClusterLabs/booth/pull/142 (opens in a new tab)
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/ERCFM3HXFJKLEMMWU3CZLPKH5LZAEDAN/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/KPK5BHYOB7CFFRQAN55YV5LH44PWHMQD/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00037.html (opens in a new tab)

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2024-3049](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2024-3049.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2024-3049)

Record last updated 4 Nov 2026, 21:11 UTC.