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CVE-2023-40303

HIGH

7.8

Description

GNU inetutils before 2.5 may allow privilege escalation because of unchecked return values of set*id() family functions in ftpd, rcp, rlogin, rsh, rshd, and uucpd. This is, for example, relevant if the setuid system call fails when a process is trying to drop privileges before letting an ordinary user control the activities of the process.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score7.8

SeverityHIGH

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

Attack VectorLOCAL

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredLOW

User InteractionNONE

Published8/14/2023

Last Modified11/21/2024

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

gnu:inetutils

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-252

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/30/4(cve@mitre.org)

https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/inetutils/(cve@mitre.org)

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/inetutils.git/commit/?id=e4e65c03f4c11292a3e40ef72ca3f194c8bffdd6(cve@mitre.org)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00013.html(cve@mitre.org)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00013.html(cve@mitre.org)

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2023-07/msg00000.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/30/4(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/inetutils/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/inetutils.git/commit/?id=e4e65c03f4c11292a3e40ef72ca3f194c8bffdd6(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00013.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00013.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2023-07/msg00000.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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