CVE-2023-32190 (GCVE-0-2023-32190)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-10-16 12:03
Modified
2025-03-19 14:39
Severity ?
8.5 (High) - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Summary
mlocate's %post script allows RUN_UPDATEDB_AS user to make arbitrary files world readable by abusing insecure file operations that run with root privileges.
References
meissner@suse.dehttps://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2023-32190
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
SUSE openSUSE Tumbleweed Version: ?   < 0.26-37.1
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