Microsoft advisory for CVE-2023-31438
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products1
- azl3 systemd-bootstrap 250.3-17 on Azure Linux 3.0
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2023-31438
- EchelonGraph score
- 5.3 MEDIUM
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- No fix is confirmed yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for the fix.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
An issue was discovered in systemd 253. An attacker can truncate a sealed log file and then resume log sealing such that checking the integrity shows no error, despite modifications. NOTE: the vendor reportedly sent "a reply denying that any of the finding was a security vulnerability."
Published by MITRE Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2023-31438, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).