CVE-2023-28144

State: Published
Severity: 7.0 High
Published: Mar 14, 2023
Updated: Feb 27, 2025
Reserved: Mar 12, 2023

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.0 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://github.com/KDAB/hotspot/releases
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/03/14/8

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