CVE-2018-16588

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-16588
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-09-26 22:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-03 00:03:00 UTC
DescriptionPrivilege 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-732

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise 12.0 All All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise 15.0 All All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise 12.0 All All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise 15.0 All All All
Application Suse Shadow All All All All
Application Suse Shadow All All All All

References

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[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2018:2852-1: moderate: Security update f SUSE lists.opensuse.org Vendor Advisory
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