CVE-2023-1672

tang: Race condition exists in the key generation and rotation functionality

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.3

CVSS 3.1

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Published · June 7, 2023

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

A race condition exists in the Tang server functionality for key generation and key rotation. This flaw results in a small time window where Tang private keys become readable by other processes on the same host.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 5.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CWE-362 · Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')