CVE-2023-40303

Publication date 14 August 2023

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8 · High

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
inetutils 24.10 oracular
Fixed 2:2.4-3ubuntu1
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 2:2.4-3ubuntu1
23.10 mantic
Fixed 2:2.4-2ubuntu2
23.04 lunar
Fixed 2:2.4-2ubuntu1.1
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 2:2.2-2ubuntu0.1
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 2:1.9.4-11ubuntu0.2
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of ESM support, was needs-triage

Patch details

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Package Patch details
inetutils

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.8 · High
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H