CVE-2023-30571

CVSS 3.1 Score 5.3 of 10 (medium)

Details

Published May 29, 2023
Updated: Jan 14, 2025
CWE ID 362

Summary

CVE-2023-30571 is a vulnerability in Libarchive versions up to 3.6.2. This issue allows directories to have world-writable permissions due to a race condition. During archive creation, the umask() call in archive_write_disk_posix.c briefly changes the process's umask to 0, making it possible for another thread to set the umask permanently to 0777. This can lead to implicit directory creation with dangerous permissions, enabling low-privileged local users to delete and rename files within those directories.

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