Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title Shadow: security bypass
Informations
Name GLSA-201805-09 First vendor Publication 2018-05-22
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2018-05-22
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A vulnerability found in Shadow may allow local attackers to bypass security restrictions.

Background

Shadow is a set of tools to deal with user accounts.

Description

A local attacker could possibly bypass security restrictions if an administrator used "group blacklisting" to restrict access to file system paths.

Impact

A local attacker could possibly bypass security restrictions.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All shadow users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-apps/shadow-4.6"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2018-7169 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-7169

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-09

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201805-09.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-35254ad97d.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-08-17 Name : The remote PhotonOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : PhotonOS_PHSA-2018-1_0-0171.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-08-17 Name : The remote PhotonOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : PhotonOS_PHSA-2018-2_0-0080.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-05-23 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201805-09.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2018-05-23 05:17:42
  • First insertion