Detections
Analytics
CVE-2023-31438
medium
Description
An issue was discovered in systemd 253. An attacker can truncate a sealed log file and then resume log sealing such that checking the integrity shows no error, despite modifications. NOTE: the vendor reportedly sent "a reply denying that any of the finding was a security vulnerability."
References
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/releases
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/28886
https://github.com/kastel-security/Journald/blob/main/journald-publication.pdf