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HIGH

CVE-2023-45838

CVE-2023-45838 Vulnerability Analysis & Exploit Intelligence

Multiple data integrity vulnerabilities exist in the package hash checking functionality of Buildroot 2023.08.1 and Buildroot dev commit 622698d7847. A specially crafted man-in-the-middle attack can lead to arbitrary command execution in the builder.This vulnerability is related to the `aufs` package.

Published Updated Sources: cvelistV5, talos

Triage

Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the scoring sources call it.

Exploitation

Unreported

no source claims exploitation

EPSS

1%

chance of exploitation in 30 days

Affects

buildroot

buildroot

CVSS base

8.1

HIGH

Affected scope

The catalog records vendors and products as separate lists, not pairs, so which product belongs to which vendor is not something this page can say.

Vendors (1)

buildroot

Products (1)

buildroot

Every base score collected

Sources score independently and disagree; each row says who scored it and under which version.

ScoreVersionSeverityExpl.ImpactSource
8.1CVSS 3.1HIGH——cvelistV5

Weakness & attack patterns

  • CWE-494

Attack patterns reported against this CVE. The ATT&CK techniques below are inferred from its weakness class.

  • T1195.002Supply Chain Compromise: Compromise Software Supply Chain
  • T1072Software Deployment Tools
  • T1195.001Supply Chain Compromise: Software Dependencies and Development Tools

References

3 on the record

Elsewhere on this site

Not in any source we poll

Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.

  • No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
  • No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
  • No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.