How severe is CVE-2023-45840?

This vulnerability has a severity rating of HIGH with a CVSS score of 8.1 out of 10.

What type of vulnerability is CVE-2023-45840?

This is classified as CWE-494, which is a common weakness in software security.

CVE-2023-45840 - HIGH Severity | CVSS 8.1

Vulnerability Description

Multiple data integrity vulnerabilities exist in the package hash checking functionality of Buildroot 2023.08.1 and Buildroot dev commit 622698d7847. A specially crafted man-in-the-middle attack can lead to arbitrary command execution in the builder.This vulnerability is related to the `riscv64-elf-toolchain` package.

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