CVE-2023-5182

Publication date 4 October 2023

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Sensitive data could be exposed in logs of subiquity version 23.09.1 and earlier. An attacker in the adm group could use this information to find hashed passwords and possibly escalate their privilege.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
subiquity	24.10 oracular	Not in release
	24.04 LTS noble	Not in release
	23.10 mantic	Not in release
	23.04 lunar	Not in release
	22.04 LTS jammy	Ignored see notes
	20.04 LTS focal	Ignored end of standard support, was ignored [see notes]
	18.04 LTS bionic	Ignored end of standard support
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

eslerm

CWE-532

nic89

The affected installers are already offered a refresh to a fixed new version of the Subiquity snap on the latest/stable channel.

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 5.5 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.5 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N