CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-28144
7.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-03-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362
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.
Affected configurations
• kdab hotspot (>= 1.3.0 <= 1.4.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
References
- https://github.com/KDAB/hotspot/releases Release Notes
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/03/14/8 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/KDAB/hotspot/releases Release Notes
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/03/14/8 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory