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CVE-2023-5557

high

A flaw was found in the tracker-miners package.

Vendor / product: Gnome — tracker miners

A flaw was found in the tracker-miners package. A weakness in the sandbox allows a maliciously-crafted file to execute code outside the sandbox if the tracker-extract process has first been compromised by a separate vulnerability.

CVSS
7.7
7.7 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (nvd@nist.gov)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2023-10-13 02:15
Modified: 2026-11-04 21:17
NVD status: Modified
Last synced 5 hours ago
Verified against the source API 2026-11-04 21:37 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

gnome / tracker_miners <3.3.2, ≥3.4.0 <3.4.5, ≥3.5.0 <3.5.3, ≥3.6.0 <3.6.1
redhat / enterprise_linux 8.0, 9.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-693 NVD-CWE-noinfo

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

No vendor advisory or patch reference tagged by NVD. Check the references below.

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-11-04 21:37 UTC · record ↗

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