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CVE-2021-44038

HIGH

7.8

Description

An issue was discovered in Quagga through 1.2.4. Unsafe chown/chmod operations in the suggested spec file allow users (with control of the non-root-owned directory /etc/quagga) to escalate their privileges to root upon package installation or update.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score7.8

SeverityHIGH

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack VectorLOCAL

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredLOW

User InteractionNONE

Published11/19/2021

Last Modified11/21/2024

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

quagga:quagga

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-59

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1191890(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/Quagga/quagga/releases(cve@mitre.org)

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1191890(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://github.com/Quagga/quagga/releases(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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