Medium
Security advisory
Sensitive data could be exposed in logs of subiquity version 23.09.1 and earlier. An attacker in the adm group could use this information to find hashed passwords and possibly escalate their privilege.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-5182
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 4 Nov 2026, 01:34 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Sensitive data could be exposed in logs of subiquity version 23.09.1 and earlier. An attacker in the adm group could use this information to find hashed passwords and possibly escalate their privilege.
osv:CVE-2023-5182
Complete source record
{
"id": "9bb5896af4bbabfeaefd26d703beea4e40aa1ddc689cb1bf0b783abde677b780",
"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-5182",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
"kind": "advisory",
"title": "CVE-2023-5182",
"summary": "Sensitive data could be exposed in logs of subiquity version 23.09.1 and earlier. An attacker in the adm group could use this information to find hashed passwords and possibly escalate their privilege.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2023-5182",
"products": [],
"severity": "medium",
"structured": {
"id": "CVE-2023-5182",
"aliases": [
"CVE-2023-5182"
],
"metrics": [
{
"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"
}
],
"affected": [
{
"ranges": [
{
"repo": "https://github.com/canonical/subiquity",
"type": "GIT",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"last_affected": "ba42c5eed73e0c3e5c02dc906d26d7a927f50bbf"
}
],
"database_specific": {
"extracted_events": [
{
"range": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"last_affected": "23.09.1"
}
],
"source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
"strategy": "StandardRange"
},
{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:canonical:subiquity:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"range": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"last_affected": "23.09.1"
}
],
"source": "CPE_RANGE"
}
]
}
}
],
"versions": [
"23.09.1",
"23.08.1",
"23.04.3",
"23.04.2",
"23.04.1",
"22.02.2",
"22.02.1",
"21.12.2",
"21.12.1",
"21.10.3",
"21.10.2",
"21.10.1",
"21.08.1",
"21.08.01",
"21.06.1",
"21.06.01",
"21.04.2",
"21.04.1",
"21.01.2",
"21.01.1",
"20.09.1",
"20.07.1",
"20.06.1",
"20.05.2",
"20.05.1",
"20.04.3",
"20.04.2",
"20.04.1",
"20.03.3",
"20.03.2",
"20.03.1",
"19.12.1",
"19.12.2",
"19.12.1.1",
"19.11.1",
"19.10.2",
"19.10.1",
"19.09.1",
"19.08.1",
"19.07.3",
"19.07.2",
"19.07.1",
"19.06.1",
"19.04.5",
"19.04.4",
"19.04.3",
"ubuntu-19.04.2",
"ubuntu-19.04.1",
"0.0.29",
"0.0.28",
"0.0.27",
"0.0.26",
"0.0.25",
"0.0.24.1",
"0.0.24",
"0.0.23",
"0.0.22",
"0.0.21",
"0.0.17.xenial",
"0.0.13",
"0.0.12",
"0.0.10",
"0.0.11",
"0.0.9",
"v0.0.8",
"v0.0.7",
"v0.0.5",
"v0.0.4",
"v0.0.3",
"demo_1"
],
"database_specific": {
"source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-5182.json"
}
}
],
"modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:32.280330558Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/5xxx/CVE-2023-5182.json",
"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5182",
"https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-5182",
"https://github.com/canonical/subiquity/pull/1820/commits/62e126896fb063808767d74d00886001e38eaa1c",
"https://github.com/canonical/subiquity"
],
"provider_metadata": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-532"
],
"cna_assigner": "canonical",
"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/5xxx/CVE-2023-5182.json"
}
},
"related_cves": [
{
"value": "CVE-2023-5182",
"evidence": "/id"
}
],
"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 499455,
"published_at": "2023-10-06T23:28:48.953+00:00"
}