CVE-2023-34391 (GCVE-0-2023-34391)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-08-31 15:31 – Updated: 2024-10-01 17:02
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Insecure Inherited Permissions
Summary
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See Instruction Manual Appendix A [Cybersecurity] tag dated 20230522 for more details.
This issue affects SEL-5033 AcSELerator RTAC Software: before 1.35.151.21000.
Severity
7.4 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-10-01 16:59 UTC
CWE
- CWE-277 - Insecure Inherited Permissions
Assigner
References
2 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories | SEL-5033 AcSELerator RTAC Software |
Affected:
0 , < 1.35.151.21000
(custom)
|
guessed | |
| schweitzer_engineering_laboratories | sel-5033_acselerator_rtac_software |
Affected:
0 , < 1.35.151.21000
(custom)
cpe:2.3:a:schweitzer_engineering_laboratories:sel-5033_acselerator_rtac_software:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Date Public
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Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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