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CVE-2023-40303

Date: August 14, 2023

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

Related Resources (7)

https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/inetutils/
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00013.html
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/inetutils.git/commit/?id=e4e65c03f4c11292a3e40ef72ca3f194c8bffdd6
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2023-07/msg00000.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/30/4
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-40303
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2023-40303

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Unchecked Return Value

CWE-252

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): LOW
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH

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