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Improper Privilege Management The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package dmidecode  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-DMIDECODE-12352202
  • published1 Sept 2025
  • disclosed13 Apr 2023
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Introduced: 13 Apr 2023

CVE-2023-30630  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream dmidecode package and not the dmidecode package as distributed by RHEL.

Dmidecode before 3.5 allows -dump-bin to overwrite a local file. This has security relevance because, for example, execution of Dmidecode via Sudo is plausible. NOTE: Some third parties have indicated the fix in 3.5 does not adequately address the vulnerability. The argument is that the proposed patch prevents dmidecode from writing to an existing file. However, there are multiple attack vectors that would not require overwriting an existing file that would provide the same level of unauthorized privilege escalation (e.g. creating a new file in /etc/cron.hourly).