CVE-2023-28144 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2023-28144 at MITRE

Description

KDAB Hotspot 1.3.x and 1.4.x through 1.4.1, in a non-default configuration, allows privilege escalation because of race conditions involving symlinks and elevate_perf_privileges.sh chown calls.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector	Local
Attack Complexity	High
Privileges Required	Low
User Interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	High
Integrity Impact	High
Availability Impact	High
CVSSv3 Version	3.1

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1209206 [NEW]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
openSUSE Tumbleweed	`hotspot >= 1.4.1-1.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE Tumbleweed GA hotspot-1.4.1-1.1

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Mon Mar 13 12:30:10 2023
CVE page last modified: Tue May 2 12:05:26 2023