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ubuntu-cve-2023-32190

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2024-10-16 12:15

Modified

2024-10-23 04:39

Summary

Details

mlocate's %post script allows RUN_UPDATEDB_AS user to make arbitrary files world readable by abusing insecure file operations that run with root privileges.

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-32190	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-32190	REPORT
	https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-202…	REPORT

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CVE-2023-32190 (GCVE-0-2023-32190)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-10-16 12:03 – Updated: 2025-03-19 14:39

Title

mlocate's %post script allows RUN_UPDATEDB_AS user to make arbitrary files world readable

Summary

mlocate's %post script allows RUN_UPDATEDB_AS user to make arbitrary files world readable by abusing insecure file operations that run with root privileges.

Severity

8.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

7.8 (High)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)

CWE

CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds Read

Assigner

suse

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-202…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
SUSE	openSUSE Tumbleweed	Affected: ? , < 0.26-37.1 (custom)
suse	opensuse_tumbleweed	Affected: 0 , < 0.26-37.1 (custom) cpe:2.3:a:suse:opensuse_tumbleweed::::::::

Date Public

2024-01-25 15:19

Credits

Johannes Segitz of SUSE

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Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

CVE-2023-32190 (GCVE-0-2023-32190)

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