CVE-2023-1981 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

A vulnerability was found in the avahi library. This flaw allows an unprivileged user to make a dbus call, causing the avahi daemon to crash.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Avahi	Avahi
Fedoraproject	Fedora
Redhat	Enterprise Linux

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:avahi:avahi:0.7-20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:37:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 3 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9.0:::::::*

Package	CPE	Advisory	Released Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
avahi-0:0.7-21.el8	cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8	RHSA-2023:7190	2023-11-14T00:00:00Z
avahi-0:0.7-21.el8	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8	RHSA-2023:7190	2023-11-14T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
avahi-0:0.8-15.el9	cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9	RHSA-2023:6707	2023-11-07T00:00:00Z
avahi-0:0.8-15.el9	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9	RHSA-2023:6707	2023-11-07T00:00:00Z

References

Link	Providers
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1981
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2185911
https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/issues/375
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1981
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-1981

History

Wed, 15 Jan 2025 22:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2023-05-26T00:00:00

Updated: 2025-01-15T21:38:19.827Z

Reserved: 2023-04-11T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2023-1981

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T06:05:27.096Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-05-26T18:15:11.277

Modified: 2025-01-15T22:15:25.813

Link: CVE-2023-1981

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2022-04-26T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-1981 - Bugzilla

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