CVE-2023-1672

Publication date 11 July 2023

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.3 · Medium

Score breakdown

A race condition exists in the Tang server functionality for key generation and key rotation. This flaw results in a small time window where Tang private keys become readable by other processes on the same host.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
tang 23.10 mantic
Not affected
23.04 lunar
Fixed 11-2ubuntu0.1
22.10 kinetic Ignored end of life, was needed
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 11-1ubuntu0.1
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 7-1ubuntu0.2
18.04 LTS bionic
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored end of standard support
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of standard support

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Notes

alexmurray

For tang 6 and 7 in bionic and focal respectively, the code from src/keys.c and src/tangd-rotate-keys.in is not present, however there is an equivalent src/tangd-keygen script which looks like it needs to be updated to set the umask correctly

Patch details

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Package Patch details
tang

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.3 · Medium
Attack vector Adjacent
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact None
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N