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).
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2023-11-01T15:54:52.093Z
Updated: 2024-09-16T13:52:57.791Z
Reserved: 2023-07-27T12:10:37.684Z
Link: CVE-2023-3972
Vulnrichment
Updated: 2024-08-02T07:08:50.763Z
NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2023-11-01T16:15:08.517
Modified: 2024-07-03T01:41:02.753
Link: CVE-2023-3972
Redhat