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.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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Amazon Linux 1 | shadow-utils | 2023-10-30 23:31 | ALAS-2023-1873 |
Amazon Linux 2 - Core | shadow-utils | 2023-09-13 23:44 | ALAS2-2023-2247 |
Amazon Linux 2023 | shadow-utils | 2023-12-06 07:45 | ALAS2023-2023-450 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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Amazon Linux | CVSSv3 | 2.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
NVD | CVSSv3 | 4.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |