CVE-2023-30571

medium

Description

Libarchive through 3.6.2 can cause directories to have world-writable permissions. The umask() call inside archive_write_disk_posix.c changes the umask of the whole process for a very short period of time; a race condition with another thread can lead to a permanent umask 0 setting. Such a race condition could lead to implicit directory creation with permissions 0777 (without the sticky bit), which means that any low-privileged local user can delete and rename files inside those directories.

References

https://groups.google.com/g/libarchive-announce

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/1876

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-05-29

Updated: 2023-06-05

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

Severity: Medium