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CVE-2023-2640highobserved exploitationCWE-863

CVE-2023-2640

83Vexday Risk Score

Patch now. It exploitation observed by VulnCheck and has a working public exploit.

ssvc Actcvss 7.8epss 16%
from disclosure to weapon20 days
Published on NVDJul 26
1st PoC+20d
metasploitJul 26
VulnCheck+392d
exploitation probability
16%top 3% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
yesVulnCheck
11 public exploit(s)
On Ubuntu kernels carrying both c914c0e27eb0 and "UBUNTU: SAUCE: overlayfs: Skip permission checking for trusted.overlayfs.* xattrs", an unprivileged user may set privileged extended attributes on the mounted files, leading them to be set on the upper files without the appropriate security checks.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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