VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2023-40303

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability0.41%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2023-08-14
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-252

Primary references