Description
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.
References (12)
Core 12
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/FJHKSBBZRDFOBNDU35FUKMYQIQYT6UJQ/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/ZDIHGNLS3TZVX7X2F735OKI4KXPY4AH6/
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
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https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4701
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
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https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4702
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
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https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4703
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
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https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4704
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
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https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4705
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
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https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4706
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
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https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4707
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
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https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4708
Vendor Advisory vdb-entry
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https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3899
Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory issue-tracking
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2225407
Scores
CVSS v3
7.8
EPSS
0.0004
EPSS Percentile
11.5%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
total
Details
CWE
CWE-285
CWE-863
Status
published
Products (50)
fedoraproject/fedora
37
fedoraproject/fedora
38
redhat/enterprise_linux
8.0
redhat/enterprise_linux
9.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_desktop
7.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_eus
8.6
redhat/enterprise_linux_eus
8.8
redhat/enterprise_linux_eus
9.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_eus
9.2
redhat/enterprise_linux_for_arm_64
8.0
... and 40 more
Published
Aug 23, 2023
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026