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1 vulnerability found for subscription-manager by redhat
CVE-2023-3899 (GCVE-0-2023-3899)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-08-23 10:49
Modified
2025-11-20 07:23
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-285 - Improper Authorization
Summary
A vulnerability was found in subscription-manager that allows local privilege escalation due to inadequate authorization. The D-Bus interface com.redhat.RHSM1 exposes a significant number of methods to all users that could change the state of the registration. By using the com.redhat.RHSM1.Config.SetAll() method, a low-privileged local user could tamper with the state of the registration, by unregistering the system or by changing the current entitlements. This flaw allows an attacker to set arbitrary configuration directives for /etc/rhsm/rhsm.conf, which can be abused to cause a local privilege escalation to an unconfined root.
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Unaffected: 0:1.24.52-2.el7_9 < * cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7::server cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7::client cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode |
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