High
Security advisory
Multiple data integrity vulnerabilities exist in the package hash checking functionality of Buildroot 2023.08.1 and Buildroot dev commit 622698d7847. A specially crafted man-in-the-middle attack can lead to arbitrary command execution in the builder.This vulnerability is related to the `aufs-util` package.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2023-45839
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 3 Nov 2026, 06:24 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Multiple data integrity vulnerabilities exist in the package hash checking functionality of Buildroot 2023.08.1 and Buildroot dev commit 622698d7847. A specially crafted man-in-the-middle attack can lead to arbitrary command execution in the builder.This vulnerability is related to the `aufs-util` package.
osv:CVE-2023-45839
Complete source record
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