TI-2023-23096 Aliases CVE-2023-43116 GHSA-7c44-7j7v-w554

A symbolic link following vulnerability in Buildkite Elastic CI for AWS versions prior to…

LOW 34CWE-59Published 2023-12-22 · Updated 2024-08-02

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 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and GitHub.

Summary

A symbolic link following vulnerability in Buildkite Elastic CI for AWS versions prior to 6.7.1 and 5.22.5 allows the buildkite-agent user to change ownership of arbitrary directories via the PIPELINE_PATH variable in the fix-buildkite-agent-builds-permissions script.

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.00325 25th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by NVD

Fix Fixed github.com/buildkite/elastic-ci-stack-for-aws/v6 (Go): 6.7.0

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
—	—	all versions	—	No fix listed	CNA
—	github.com/buildkite/elastic-ci-stack-for-aws/v6 (Go)	before 6.7.0	6.7.0	Patch available	GHSA-7c44-7j7v-w554

— Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
github.com/buildkite/elastic-ci-stack-for-aws/v6 (Go) Vendor— Affected before 6.7.0 Fixed in 6.7.0 Patch available GHSA-7c44-7j7v-w554

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:buildkite:elastic_ci_stack::::::aws::*	before 5.22.5; 6.0.0 to before 6.7.1	Vulnerable	Buildkite

cpe:2.3:a:buildkite:elastic_ci_stack:*:*:*:*:*:aws:*:* Versions before 5.22.5; 6.0.0 to before 6.7.1 Vulnerable ·Buildkite

Remediation

Fix · GHSA-7c44-7j7v-w554 github.com/buildkite/elastic-ci-stack-for-aws/v6 (Go) Fixed in 6.7.0 Advisory →

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-43116
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-7c44-7j7v-w554

References

Exploit 1

https://github.com/atredispartners/advisories/blob/master/ATREDIS-2023-0003.md

Advisory 1

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-43116

Other 2

TI-2023-23443 A time-of-check-time-of-use race condition vulnerability in Buildkite Elastic CI for AWS… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.0

Sources

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