CVE-2023-40303

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-40303
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-40303.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-40303
Downstream
Published
2023-08-14T05:15:10.233Z
Modified
2026-02-10T17:20:58.981066Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/inetutils.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/inetutils.git
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
e4e65c03f4c11292a3e40ef72ca3f194c8bffdd6

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-40303.json"