{"id":"CVE-2023-4641","details":"A flaw was found in shadow-utils. When asking for a new password, shadow-utils asks the password twice. If the password fails on the second attempt, shadow-utils fails in cleaning the buffer used to store the first entry. This may allow an attacker with enough access to retrieve the password from the memory.","modified":"2026-04-16T04:39:26.368768253Z","published":"2023-12-27T16:15:13.363Z","related":["ALSA-2023:6632","ALSA-2023:7112","SUSE-RU-2026:1228-1","SUSE-SU-2023:3591-1","SUSE-SU-2023:4023-1","SUSE-SU-2023:4024-1","SUSE-SU-2023:4025-1","SUSE-SU-2023:4027-1","SUSE-SU-2024:1007-1","SUSE-SU-2024:1007-2","openSUSE-SU-2026:10081-1"],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00026.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7112"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0417"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2577"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4641"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6632"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2215945"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"014536f5d55df33fc032d7a14d9f9d975d569722"}],"database_specific":{"versions":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.14.0"}]}}],"versions":["4.10","4.12","4.12.1","4.12.2","4.13","4.14.0-rc1","4.14.0-rc2","4.14.0-rc3","4.14.0-rc4","4.14.0-rc5","4.2.1","4.3.0","4.3.1","4.4","4.5","4.6","4.7","4.8","4.8.1","4.9","v4.10","v4.11.1","v4.9"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-4641.json","unresolved_ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"8.0"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"9.0"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"8.0_aarch64"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"9.0_aarch64"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"8.0_s390x"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"9.0_s390x"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"8.0_ppc64le"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"9.0_ppc64le"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"8.0"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"9.0"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"8.0"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"9.0"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"8.0_s390x"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"9.0_s390x"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"8.0_ppc64le"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"9.0_ppc64le"}]}]}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"}]}