CVE-2023-40303 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00046.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:gnu:inetutils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Project Subscriptions

Vendors	Products
Gnu Subscribe	Inetutils Subscribe

Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DLA	DLA-3611-1	inetutils security update
Ubuntu USN	USN-6304-1	Inetutils vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN	USN-7781-1	Inetutils vulnerabilities

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/30/4
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/inetutils/
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/inetutils.git/commit/?id=e4e65c03f4c11292a3e40ef72ca3f194c8bffdd6
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00013.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2023-07/msg00000.html

History

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Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2023-08-14T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-02T18:31:53.432Z

Reserved: 2023-08-14T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2023-40303

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-08-14T05:15:10.233

Modified: 2024-11-21T08:19:11.747

Link: CVE-2023-40303

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-252

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