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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-6395 Detail

Description

The Mock software contains a vulnerability wherein an attacker could potentially exploit privilege escalation, enabling the execution of arbitrary code with root user privileges. This weakness stems from the absence of proper sandboxing during the expansion and execution of Jinja2 templates, which may be included in certain configuration parameters. While the Mock documentation advises treating users added to the mock group as privileged, certain build systems invoking mock on behalf of users might inadvertently permit less privileged users to define configuration tags. These tags could then be passed as parameters to mock during execution, potentially leading to the utilization of Jinja2 templates for remote privilege escalation and the execution of arbitrary code as the root user on the build server.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/16/1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/16/3 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Exploit  Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6395 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2252206 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/xsuchy/templated-dictionary/commit/0740bd0ca8d487301881541028977d120f8b8933 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch 
https://github.com/xsuchy/templated-dictionary/commit/bcd90f0dafa365575c4b101e6f5d98c4ef4e4b69 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch 
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/62SP2BJC2AFLFJJAEHPGZ3ZINTBTI7AN/ CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/NBFYREAJH4T7GXXQZ4GJEREN4Q3AHS3K/ CVE, Inc., Red Hat

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
NVD-CWE-noinfo Insufficient Information cwe source acceptance level NIST  
CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') CISA-ADP  
CWE-20 Improper Input Validation Red Hat, Inc.  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2023-6395
NVD Published Date:
01/16/2024
NVD Last Modified:
11/21/2024
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.