Denial of service in F5 Traffix SDC libarchive package

1) Race condition

EUVDB-ID: #VU96964

Risk: Low

CVSSv3.1: 3.3 [CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L/E:U/RL:U/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2023-30571

CWE-ID: CWE-362 - Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a race condition due to the umask() call inside archive_write_disk_posix.c changes the umask of the whole process for a very short period of time. Such a race condition could lead to implicit directory creation with permissions 0777 (without the sticky bit), which means that any low-privileged local user can delete and rename files inside those directories.

Mitigation

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

Vulnerable software versions

Traffix SDC: 5.2.0 - 5.2.5

External links

http://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000140953

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

No. This vulnerability can be exploited locally. The attacker should have authentication credentials and successfully authenticate on the system.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.