CVE-2023-5937 (GCVE-0-2023-5937)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-15 16:06 – Updated: 2024-09-20 18:23
VLAI
Title
Sensitive data exfiltration via unsafe permissions on Windows systems in Arc before v1.6.0
Summary
On Windows systems, the Arc configuration files resulted to be world-readable. This can lead to information disclosure by local attackers, via exfiltration of sensitive data from configuration files.
Severity
3.8 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
5.2 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-05-15 17:48 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-538 - Insertion of Sensitive Information into Externally-Accessible File or Directory
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Nozomi Networks Arc Affected: 0 , < 1.6.0 (semver)
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Date Public
2024-05-15 16:06
Credits
This issue was found by Diego Giubertoni, Gabriele Quagliarella of Nozomi Networks Security Research team during an internal penetration testing session.
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