Information Exposure Affecting traceroute package, versions <3:2.1.0-18.el9


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.39% (33rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-TRACEROUTE-13522362
  • published10 Oct 2025
  • disclosed25 Oct 2023

Introduced: 25 Oct 2023

CVE-2023-46316  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-214  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:9 traceroute to version 3:2.1.0-18.el9 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2024:2483.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream traceroute package and not the traceroute package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

In buc Traceroute 2.0.12 through 2.1.2 before 2.1.3, the wrapper scripts do not properly parse command lines.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1