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CVE-2023-38201: Keylime: challenge-response protocol bypass during agent registration
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2023-08-25 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-639
Description
A flaw was found in the Keylime registrar that could allow a bypass of the challenge-response protocol during agent registration. This issue may allow an attacker to impersonate an agent and hide the true status of a monitored machine if the fake agent is added to the verifier list by a legitimate user, resulting in a breach of the integrity of the registrar database.
Affected products
- Fedoraproject Fedora: 38
- keylime: before 7.5.0 — fixed in 7.5.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 9.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Eus: 9.2
- RedHat Enterprise Linux For Ibm Z Systems: 9.0_s390x
- RedHat Enterprise Linux For Ibm Z Systems Eus: 9.2_s390x
- RedHat Enterprise Linux For Power Little Endian: 9.0_ppc64le
- RedHat Enterprise Linux For Power Little Endian Eus: 9.2_ppc64le
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 9.2
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: keylime 7.5.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5080
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-38201
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2222693
- https://github.com/keylime/keylime/commit/9e5ac9f25cd400b16d5969f531cee28290543f2a
- https://github.com/keylime/keylime/security/advisories/GHSA-f4r5-q63f-gcww
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5080
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-38201
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2222693
- https://github.com/keylime/keylime/commit/9e5ac9f25cd400b16d5969f531cee28290543f2a
- https://github.com/keylime/keylime/security/advisories/GHSA-f4r5-q63f-gcww
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZIZZB5NHNCS5D2AEH3ZAO6OQC72IK7WS/
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