CVE-2023-41915

Summary

CVECVE-2023-41915
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-09-09 22:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 04:21:00 UTC
DescriptionOpenPMIx PMIx before 4.2.6 and 5.0.x before 5.0.1 allows attackers to obtain ownership of arbitrary files via a race condition during execution of library code with UID 0.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-362

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 37 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 38 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 39 All All All
Application Openpmix Openpmix All All All All
Application Openpmix Openpmix 5.0.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: openmpi-4.1.4-9.fc38 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
14. OpenPMIx Security Policy — OpenPMIx latest documentation MISC docs.openpmix.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: slurm-22.05.9-5.fc37 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 3643-1] pmix security update MLIST lists.debian.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-5547-1 pmix DEBIAN www.debian.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: slurm-22.05.9-5.fc37 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 39 Update: slurm-22.05.9-5.fc39 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 39 Update: slurm-22.05.9-5.fc39 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
Release PMIx v4.2.6 · openpmix/openpmix · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: openmpi-4.1.4-9.fc38 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
Release PMIx v5.0.1 · openpmix/openpmix · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 199836 Ubuntu Security Notification for PMIx Vulnerability (USN-6434-1)
  • 284568 Fedora Security Update for openmpi (FEDORA-2023-d6dbdf62ad)
  • 284569 Fedora Security Update for openmpi (FEDORA-2023-155d2f22f1)
  • 285253 Fedora Security Update for openmpi (FEDORA-2023-1185eca900)
  • 356377 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for pmix : ALAS2023-2023-363
  • 6000287 Debian Security Update for pmix (DLA 3643-1)
  • 6000289 Debian Security Update for pmix (DSA 5547-1)
  • 754985 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for pmix (SUSE-SU-2023:3859-1)
  • 907351 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for pmix (29702-1)

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