Incorrect default permissions in openSUSE Tumbleweed
Priority HIGH 69CWE-276Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
Incorrect Default Permissions vulnerability in the openSUSE Tumbleweed hawk2 package allows users with access to the hacluster to escalate to root This issue affects openSUSE Tumbleweed.
Why it matters now
Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00209 11th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by NVD
Fix Fixed Tumbleweed (openSUSE): 2.6.4+git.1682509819.1ff135ea-269.5
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Tumbleweed (openSUSE) Fixed in 2.6.4+git.1682509819.1ff135ea-269.5
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-32183
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-hhg8-hpp7-9h4q
References
More openSUSE Tumbleweed vulnerabilities
- TI-2015-02923 Access control flaw in ProFTPD mod_copy allows arbitrary file access KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
- TI-2025-39025 Local DoS in OpenSMTPD via UNIX domain socket smtpd.sock CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.9
- TI-2020-06496 inn: non-root owned files CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.4
- TI-2022-13283 keylime %post scriplet allows for privilege escalation from keylime user to root CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8
Sources
- CVE-2023-32183 · CVE Program
- CVE-2023-32183 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-hhg8-hpp7-9h4q · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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