PyPi: Insights-Core

CVE-2023-3972

Safety vulnerability ID: 65359

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Created at Nov 01, 2023 Updated at Dec 12, 2024
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Advisory

A vulnerability was found in insights-client. This security issue occurs because of insecure file operations or unsafe handling of temporary files and directories that lead to local privilege escalation. Before the insights-client has been registered on the system by root, an unprivileged local user or attacker could create the /var/tmp/insights-client directory (owning the directory with read, write, and execute permissions) on the system. After the insights-client is registered by root, an attacker could then control the directory content that insights are using by putting malicious scripts into it and executing arbitrary code as root (trivially bypassing SELinux protections because insights processes are allowed to disable SELinux system-wide).

Affected package

insights-core

Latest version: 3.4.27

Insights Core is a data collection and analysis framework

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

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Severity Details

CVSS Base Score

HIGH 7.8

CVSS v3 Details

HIGH 7.8
Attack Vector (AV)
LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC)
LOW
Privileges Required (PR)
LOW
User Interaction (UI)
NONE
Scope (S)
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact (C)
HIGH
Integrity Impact (I)
HIGH
Availability Availability (A)
HIGH