Improper Access Control Affecting rread/lustre package, versions [2.12,2.15.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.17% (38th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-RREADLUSTRE-9673858
  • published10 Mar 2024
  • disclosed7 Mar 2024
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Mar 2024

CVE-2023-51786  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade rread/lustre to version 2.15.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Access Control in handling user/group IDs with greater permissions than the individual user who holds them. A user can access files accessible to the client that they should not be authorized to access.

Note: The server must be version 2.14 or higher and the client must be version 2.12 or higher in order to be vulnerable.

Workaround

This vulnerability can be avoided by disabling user namespaces with sysctl -w user.max_user_namespaces=0.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1