CVE-2023-1672

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    CVE-2023-1672

    Published: 11 Jul 2023Last Modified: 12 Aug 2026

    Summary: Race condition exists in the key generation and rotation functionality

    Details: 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: https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/11/msg00004.html, https://packages.fedoraproject.org/, https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/06/15/1, https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1672, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/1xxx/CVE-2023-1672.json, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1672, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2180999, https://github.com/latchset/tang/commit/8dbbed10870378f1b2c3cf3df2ea7edca7617096

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -100265e32f56e33c8120fca83de419155ac8db5e

    Affected versions

    v13

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
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    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
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    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
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    High
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