CVE-2023-3972
CVSS V2 None
CVSS V3 None
Description
A vulnerability was found in insights-client. This security issue occurs because of insecure file operations or unsafe handling of temporary files and directories that lead to local privilege escalation. Before the insights-client has been registered on the system by root, an unprivileged local user or attacker could create the /var/tmp/insights-client directory (owning the directory with read, write, and execute permissions) on the system. After the insights-client is registered by root, an attacker could then control the directory content that insights are using by putting malicious scripts into it and executing arbitrary code as root (trivially bypassing SELinux protections because insights processes are allowed to disable SELinux system-wide).
Overview
- CVE ID
- CVE-2023-3972
- Assigner
- redhat
- Vulnerability Status
- PUBLISHED
- Published Version
- 2023-11-01T15:54:52.093Z
- Last Modified Date
- 2024-06-04T17:17:34.485Z
Weakness Enumerations
References
| Reference URL | Reference Tags |
|---|---|
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6264 | vendor-advisory x_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6282 | vendor-advisory x_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6283 | vendor-advisory x_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6284 | vendor-advisory x_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6795 | vendor-advisory x_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6796 | vendor-advisory x_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6798 | vendor-advisory x_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6811 | vendor-advisory x_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3972 | vdb-entry x_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2227027 | issue-tracking x_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://github.com/RedHatInsights/insights-core/pull/3878 |
Sources
| Source Name | Source URL |
|---|---|
| NIST | https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-3972 |
| MITRE | https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-3972 |
History
| Created | Old Value | New Value | Data Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-06-24 21:09:35 | Added to TrackCVE |