Security Advisory
CVE-2023-40303
7.8
HIGH
Vulnerability Description
GNU inetutils before 2.5 may allow privilege escalation because of unchecked return values of set*id() family functions in ftpd, rcp, rlogin, rsh, rshd, and uucpd. This is, for example, relevant if the setuid system call fails when a process is trying to drop privileges before letting an ordinary user control the activities of the process.
Published Date
August 14, 2023
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory