CVE-2023-28144

KDAB Hotspot 1.3.x and 1.4.x through 1.4.1, in a non-default configuration, allows privilege escalation because of race conditions involving symlinks and elevateperfprivileges.sh chown calls.

Database specific

{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/28xxx/CVE-2023-28144.json",
    "cna_assigner": "mitre"
}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/kdab/hotspot

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/kdab/hotspot

Events

Introduced

a7aacdb426f7838ede2640e66be4d2a9ab3dfc06

Fixed

7f924516a28e615b4a74099cf2d86c2d97eca4e0

Database specific

{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "1.4.x"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "1.4.1"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "1.3.0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.4.1"
        }
    ],
    "source": [
        "DESCRIPTION",
        "CPE_RANGE"
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:kdab:hotspot:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
}

Affected versions

v1.*

v1.4.0

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-28144.json"