CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-1672
5.3 MEDIUM
Official page ↗
- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-07-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• tang project tang (< 14)
• fedoraproject fedora 38
• redhat enterprise linux 8.0
• redhat enterprise linux 9.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1672 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2180999 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/latchset/tang/commit/8dbbed10870378f1b2c3cf3df2ea7edca7617096 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/11/msg00004.html lists.debian.org
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/06/15/1 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1672 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2180999 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/latchset/tang/commit/8dbbed10870378f1b2c3cf3df2ea7edca7617096 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/11/msg00004.html lists.debian.org
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/06/15/1 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory