PT-2024-12299 · Mlocate · Mlocate

Johannes Segitz · Published 2024-10-16 · Updated 2024-10-21 · CVE-2023-32190

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions mlocate (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows the RUN UPDATEDB AS user to make arbitrary files world readable by abusing insecure file operations that run with root privileges. This is due to mlocate's %post script.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

CVE-2023-32190

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:13622-1

Affected Products

Mlocate

References · 13

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2023-32190 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-32190 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-32190 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-32190 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-32190 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-32190 · Vendor Advisory
• https://t.me/cvedetector/8051 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1846529286205046913 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1846601118257758590 · Twitter Post
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2023-32190 · Note
• https://twitter.com/cracbot/status/1848242931490255072 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/98319 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/CveFindCom/status/1846529647162306963 · Twitter Post