Privilege escalation can occur in the SUSE useradd.c code in useradd, as distributed in the SUSE shadow package through 4.2.1-27.9.1 for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 (SLE-12) and through 4.5-5.39 for SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 (SLE-15). Non-existing intermediate directories are created with mode 0777 during user creation. Given that they are world-writable, local attackers might use this for privilege escalation and other unspecified attacks. NOTE: this would affect non-SUSE users who took useradd.c code from a 2014-04-02 upstream pull request; however, no non-SUSE distribution is known to be affected.
References
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http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2018-09/msg00073.html | Vendor Advisory |
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2018-09/msg00073.html | Vendor Advisory |
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Information
Published : 2018-09-26 22:29
Updated : 2024-11-21 03:53
NVD link : CVE-2018-16588
Mitre link : CVE-2018-16588
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2018-16588
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Products Affected
suse
- linux_enterprise
- shadow
CWE
CWE-732
Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource