CVE-2023-4641

A flaw was found in shadow-utils. When asking for a new password, shadow-utils asks the password twice. If the password fails on the second attempt, shadow-utils fails in cleaning the buffer used to store the first entry. This may allow an attacker with enough access to retrieve the password from the memory.

Database specific

{
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-303"
    ],
    "cna_assigner": "redhat",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/4xxx/CVE-2023-4641.json"
}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/shadow-maint/shadow

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow

Events

Introduced

Fixed

014536f5d55df33fc032d7a14d9f9d975d569722

Database specific

{
    "source": "CPE_FIELD",
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:shadow-maint:shadow-utils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "4.14.0"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

4.*

4.10

4.12

4.12.1

4.12.2

4.13

4.14.0-rc1

4.14.0-rc2

4.14.0-rc3

4.14.0-rc4

4.14.0-rc5

4.2.1

4.3.0

4.3.1

4.4

4.5

4.6

4.7

4.8

4.8.1

4.9

v4.*

v4.10

v4.11.1

v4.9

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-4641.json"