Security Advisory

CVE-2023-4641

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2023-12-27 15:43:22
Last updated 2025-11-03 19:28:32
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

A flaw was found in shadow-utils. When asking for a new password, shadow-utils asks the password twice. If the password fails on the second attempt, shadow-utils fails in cleaning the buffer used to store the first entry. This may allow an attacker with enough access to retrieve the password from the memory.