CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2023-40303
High (7.8) in gnu inetutils. EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 35% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-252
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- gnu:inetutils
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/30/4
- https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/inetutils/
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/inetutils.git/commit/?id=e4e65c03f4c11292a3e40ef72ca3f194c8bffdd6
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00013.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00013.html