A vulnerability was found in subscription-manager that allows local privilege escalation due to inadequate authorization.
CVE-2023-3899
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.
Assessment
- CVSS
- 7.8 (v3.1)
- Severity
- High
- EPSS
- 0.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Known exploited
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Exploit availability
- Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
- Published
- 23 August 2023
- Last updated
- 7 November 2026
- Affected
- Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Update Services for SAP Solutions · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support
- Assigner
- redhat
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
At the source
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4701
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4702
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4703
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4704
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4705
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4706
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4707
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4708
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3899
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2225407
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