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CVE-2023-3972 Detail

Description

A vulnerability was found in insights-client. This security issue occurs because of insecure file operations or unsafe handling of temporary files and directories that lead to local privilege escalation. Before the insights-client has been registered on the system by root, an unprivileged local user or attacker could create the /var/tmp/insights-client directory (owning the directory with read, write, and execute permissions) on the system. After the insights-client is registered by root, an attacker could then control the directory content that insights are using by putting malicious scripts into it and executing arbitrary code as root (trivially bypassing SELinux protections because insights processes are allowed to disable SELinux system-wide).


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Hyperlink Resource
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6264 Vendor Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6282 Vendor Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6283 Vendor Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6284 Vendor Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6795 Vendor Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6796 Vendor Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6798 Vendor Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6811 Vendor Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3972 Vendor Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2227027 Issue Tracking  Vendor Advisory 
https://github.com/RedHatInsights/insights-core/pull/3878 Patch 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-668 Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere cwe source acceptance level NIST  
CWE-379 Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Insecure Permissions Red Hat, Inc.   CISA-ADP  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2023-3972
NVD Published Date:
11/01/2023
NVD Last Modified:
07/02/2024
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.