Vulnerability Details CVE-2023-40303
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 18.5%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.8
References
- 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.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00013.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2023-07/msg00000.html
- 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.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00013.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2023-07/msg00000.html
Products affected by CVE-2023-40303
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:inetutils:-
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:inetutils:1.3.2
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:inetutils:1.3a
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:inetutils:1.3b
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:inetutils:1.4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:inetutils:1.4.1
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:inetutils:1.4.2
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:inetutils:1.5
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:inetutils:1.6
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:inetutils:1.7
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:inetutils:1.8
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:inetutils:1.9
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:inetutils:1.9.1
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:inetutils:1.9.2
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:inetutils:1.9.3
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:inetutils:1.9.4
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:inetutils:2.2
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:inetutils:2.3