CVE-2023-1832 — An improper access control flaw was found in Candlepin

An improper access control flaw was found in Candlepin. An attacker can create data scoped under another customer/tenant, which can result in loss of confidentiality and availability for the affected customer/tenant.

01What is this vulnerability?

An improper access control flaw was found in Candlepin. An attacker can create data scoped under another customer/tenant, which can result in loss of confidentiality and availability for the affected customer/tenant.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / candlepin	4.3.7 — 3
n	a / candlepin	4.3.8 — 1
Red Hat	Red Hat Satellite 6	unspecified

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-10-04T13:05:37.522Z
• Last modified: 2024-09-19T14:42:30.285Z

09References

• access.redhat.com — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1832
• bugzilla.redhat.com — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2184364