CVE Catalog

CVE-2023-3899

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.25%

16th percentile - higher than 16% of all known CVEs

Summary

A vulnerability was found in subscription-manager that allows local privilege escalation due to inadequate authorization. The D-Bus interface com.redhat.RHSM1 exposes a significant number of methods to all users that could change the state of the registration.

Risk Assessment

This vulnerability allows a low-privileged local user to tamper with the state of the registration, potentially leading to unauthorized access to the root account. This poses a serious security threat to the system.

Recommendation

It is recommended to restrict access to the D-Bus interface com.redhat.RHSM1 and implement appropriate authorization controls to prevent unauthorized changes to the system configuration.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

A vulnerability was found in subscription-manager that allows local privilege escalation due to inadequate authorization. The D-Bus interface com.redhat.RHSM1 exposes a significant number of methods to all users that could change the state of the registration. By using the com.redhat.RHSM1.Config.SetAll() method, a low-privileged local user could tamper with the state of the registration, by unregistering the system or by changing the current entitlements. This flaw allows an attacker to set arbitrary configuration directives for /etc/rhsm/rhsm.conf, which can be abused to cause a local privilege escalation to an unconfined root.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS