CVE-2023-32190

mlocate's %post script allows RUN_UPDATEDB_AS user to make arbitrary files world readable

State: Published
Severity: 8.5 High
Published: Oct 16, 2024
Updated: Mar 19, 2025
Reserved: May 4, 2023

Description

mlocate's %post script allows RUN_UPDATEDB_AS user to make arbitrary files world readable by abusing insecure file operations that run with root privileges.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	8.5 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	suse
3.1	7.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

Affected Products

Product	Versions
openSUSE TumbleweedSUSE	? to before 0.26-37.1Affected

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2023-32190

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