CVE-2023-5847 (GCVE-0-2023-5847)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-11-01 15:30
Modified
2024-09-05 19:40
Severity ?
6.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Summary
Under certain conditions, a low privileged attacker could load a specially crafted file during installation or upgrade to escalate privileges on Windows and Linux hosts.
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Tenable Nessus Version: 0
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