CVE-2023-6917
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-02-28 14:38
Modified
2024-09-16 16:07
Severity ?
6.0 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Summary
Pcp: unsafe use of directories allows pcp to root privilege escalation
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2213
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6917
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2254983
Impacted products
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 8
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