CVE-2023-1672 (GCVE-0-2023-1672)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-07-11 11:47
Modified
2025-02-13 16:39
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-362 - Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
Summary
A race condition exists in the Tang server functionality for key generation and key rotation. This flaw results in a small time window where Tang private keys become readable by other processes on the same host.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a tang
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