vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2023-28144: hotspot -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Mar 14, 2023
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

KDAB Hotspot 1.3.x and 1.4.x through 1.4.1, in a non-default configuration, allows privilege escalation because of race conditions involving symlinks and elevate_perf_privileges.sh chown calls.

Solution

no-fix-debian-deb-package
Title
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