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CVE-2023-29383

Is CVE-2023-29383 real, exploitable, or a false positive? Here's the community verdict.

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signals

public sources

Exploited in wild
Not listed
CISA KEV
Public exploit
None known
Metasploit/EDB/PoC
Base severity
3.3 Low
CVSS
Exploitation prob.
0.4%
FIRST EPSS
Weakness
CWE-74
CWE

Moderate signals. Triage by your actual exposure and reachability.

cisa ssvc

CISA Vulnrichment · assessed

Exploitation
Public PoC
in the wild
Automatable
No
at scale
Technical impact
Partial
on success

CISA decision, by how critical the affected system is to you:

  • low impact → Track
  • medium impact → Track
  • high impact → Track*

Track: normal patch cycle · Track*: watch closely · Attend: patch sooner · Act: patch now. About SSVC ↗

scanner noise

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ScannerFlagged inTurned out noise
Wiz1 scan0%

How often this CVE was flagged by each scanner and how much turned out to be noise (false positives), aggregated anonymously from de-noised reports. Higher noise means the alert is more often not a real risk — verify your exposure.

baseline read

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Low signal — verdict needed

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Based on CVSS · FIRST EPSS

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CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

In Shadow 4.13, it is possible to inject control characters into fields provided to the SUID program chfn (change finger). Although it is not possible to exploit this directly (e.g., adding a new user fails because \n is in the block list), it is possible to misrepresent the /etc/passwd file when viewed. Use of \r manipulations and Unicode characters to work around blocking of the : character make it possible to give the impression that a new user has been added. In other words, an adversary may be able to convince a system administrator to take the system offline (an indirect, social-engineered denial of service) by demonstrating that "cat /etc/passwd" shows a rogue user account.

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  1. CISA SSVC assessment · exploitation: poc
  2. Published by NVD

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Same weakness: CWE-74.