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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.8 High

CVE-2023-3972

Insights-client: unsafe handling of temporary files and directories

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
redhat

Description

A vulnerability was found in insights-client. This security issue occurs because of insecure file operations or unsafe handling of temporary files and directories that lead to local privilege escalation. Before the insights-client has been registered on the system by root, an unprivileged local user or attacker could create the /var/tmp/insights-client directory (owning the directory with read, write, and execute permissions) on the system. After the insights-client is registered by root, an attacker could then control the directory content that insights are using by putting malicious scripts into it and executing arbitrary code as root (trivially bypassing SELinux protections because insights processes are allowed to disable SELinux system-wide).

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Default version status: affected

  • 0:3.1.9-1.el7_9 to < *unaffected

Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Default version status: affected

  • 0:3.2.2-1.el8_8 to < *unaffected

Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Update Services for SAP Solutions

Default version status: affected

  • 0:3.2.3-1.el8_1 to < *unaffected

Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support

Default version status: affected

  • 0:3.2.3-1.el8_2 to < *unaffected

Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Telecommunications Update Service

Default version status: affected

  • 0:3.2.3-1.el8_2 to < *unaffected

Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions

Default version status: affected

  • 0:3.2.3-1.el8_2 to < *unaffected

Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support

Default version status: affected

  • 0:3.2.3-1.el8_4 to < *unaffected

Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Telecommunications Update Service

Default version status: affected

  • 0:3.2.3-1.el8_4 to < *unaffected

Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions

Default version status: affected

  • 0:3.2.3-1.el8_4 to < *unaffected

Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support

Default version status: affected

  • 0:3.2.2-1.el8_6 to < *unaffected

Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Default version status: affected

  • 0:3.2.2-1.el9_2 to < *unaffected

Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update Support

Default version status: affected

  • 0:3.2.2-1.el9_0 to < *unaffected

Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Default version status: unknown

References