CVE-2023-40546

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

Publication date:

29/01/2024

Last modified:

16/09/2024

Description

A flaw was found in Shim when an error happened while creating a new ESL variable. If Shim fails to create the new variable, it tries to print an error message to the user; however, the number of parameters used by the logging function doesn&#39;t match the format string used by it, leading to a crash under certain circumstances.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

5.50

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:shim::::::::		15.8 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:39:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9.0:::::::*

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CVE-2023-40546

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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