🛡️ CVE-2023-33865 on Debian — renderdoc

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

RenderDoc before 1.27 allows local privilege escalation via a symlink attack. It relies on the /tmp/RenderDoc directory regardless of ownership.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2023-33865 as tracked by Debian, for the package renderdoc. The fix is available in version 1.24+dfsg-1+deb12u1; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-33865 is classified as CWE-59: Link Following. The software follows symbolic or hard links without verifying their target, so a planted link can redirect an operation to a sensitive file.

Affected software

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-33865 is recorded against 1 package.

  • renderdoc (fixed in 1.24+dfsg-1+deb12u1)

Timeline and source

Published on 7 June 2023 and last revised on 7 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security-tracker.debian.org (Advisory)

CVE-2023-33865 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2023-06-07
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-08-07
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
renderdoc — 1.24+dfsg-1+deb12u1

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