CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-40303

7.8 HIGH Published 2023-08-14 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-08-14
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-252

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• gnu inetutils (<= 2.4)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-252 Unchecked Return Value weakness

References