CVE-2023-4641mediumCWE-303

CVE-2023-4641: medium-severity vulnerability in shadow-utils

Shadow-utils: possible password leak during passwd(1) change

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13Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 4.7epss 0.3%
A flaw was found in shadow-utils. When asking for a new password, shadow-utils asks the password twice. If the password fails on the second attempt, shadow-utils fails in cleaning the buffer used to store the first entry. This may allow an attacker with enough access to retrieve the password from the memory.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected products
shadow-utilsRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update SupportRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update SupportRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
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