CVSS 3.1
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NCVE-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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 17% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-287, CWE-303
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- redhat:codeready_linux_builder
- redhat:codeready_linux_builder_for_arm64
- redhat:codeready_linux_builder_for_ibm_z_systems
- redhat:codeready_linux_builder_for_power_little_endian
- redhat:enterprise_linux
- redhat:enterprise_linux_for_arm_64
- redhat:enterprise_linux_for_ibm_z_systems
- redhat:enterprise_linux_for_power_little_endian
- shadow-maint:shadow-utils