CVE-2023-40303

Published Aug 14, 2023

Last updated a year ago

Overview

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.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type: Primary
Base score: 7.8
Impact score: 5.9
Exploitability score: 1.8
Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity: HIGH

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-252

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:inetutils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "7262D919-99CB-4C30-94B8-F0D1AD4A628F",
            "versionEndIncluding": "2.4"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References