Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-2640 - Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux 23.04

047910
CVSS 7.8 - HIGH
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
LOW
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
local
low complexity
canonical
CWE-863

Summary

On Ubuntu kernels carrying both c914c0e27eb0 and "UBUNTU: SAUCE: overlayfs: Skip permission checking for trusted.overlayfs.* xattrs", an unprivileged user may set privileged extended attributes on the mounted files, leading them to be set on the upper files without the appropriate security checks.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Canonical
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)