CVE-2023-5557: Gnome Tracker Miners

High severity, CVSS 7.7. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Gnome Tracker Miners: before 3.3.2 (fixed in 3.3.2); from 3.4.0, before 3.4.5 (fixed in 3.4.5); from 3.5.0, before 3.5.3 (fixed in 3.5.3); from 3.6.0, before 3.6.1 (fixed in 3.6.1)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only

Published 2023-10-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.