VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2023-1672
A race condition exists in the Tang server functionality for key generation and key rotation.
MEDIUM 5.3EPSS 0.57%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.57%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
A race condition exists in the Tang server functionality for key generation and key rotation. This flaw results in a small time window where Tang private keys become readable by other processes on the same host.
- CVSS 3.1
- 5.3 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.57% probability · 45th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-362
- Affected
- tang project/tang · fedoraproject/fedora · redhat/enterprise linux
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1672Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2180999Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/latchset/tang/commit/8dbbed10870378f1b2c3cf3df2ea7edca7617096Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/11/msg00004.html
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/06/15/1Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1672Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2180999Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/latchset/tang/commit/8dbbed10870378f1b2c3cf3df2ea7edca7617096Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/11/msg00004.html
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/06/15/1Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.