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CVE-2023-28371

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-03-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

In Stellarium through 1.2, attackers can write to files that are typically unintended, such as ones with absolute pathnames or .. directory traversal.

Affected products

• Stellarium: through 1.2

References

• https://github.com/Stellarium/stellarium/commit/1261f74dc4aa6bbd01ab514343424097f8cf46b7
• https://github.com/Stellarium/stellarium/commit/787a894897b7872ae96e6f5804a182210edd5c78
• https://github.com/Stellarium/stellarium/commit/eba61df3b38605befcb43687a4c0a159dbc0c5cb
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KG6UNRAOYZJSMIUELY3MMJ5J6LIUZXLT/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/REDZB5J7WDN2P3NYWFO2NNJXSTOFUUKM/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YQ4ZGY5MDDHBEOQTD4IIA2RFID3ATPXA/
• https://github.com/Stellarium/stellarium/commit/1261f74dc4aa6bbd01ab514343424097f8cf46b7
• https://github.com/Stellarium/stellarium/commit/787a894897b7872ae96e6f5804a182210edd5c78
• https://github.com/Stellarium/stellarium/commit/eba61df3b38605befcb43687a4c0a159dbc0c5cb
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KG6UNRAOYZJSMIUELY3MMJ5J6LIUZXLT/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/REDZB5J7WDN2P3NYWFO2NNJXSTOFUUKM/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YQ4ZGY5MDDHBEOQTD4IIA2RFID3ATPXA/

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