CVE-2018-7169

An issue was discovered in shadow 4.5. newgidmap (in shadow-utils) is setuid and allows an unprivileged user to be placed in a user namespace where setgroups(2) is permitted. This allows an attacker to remove themselves from a supplementary group, which may allow access to certain filesystem paths if the administrator has used "group blacklisting" (e.g., chmod g-rwx) to restrict access to paths. This flaw effectively reverts a security feature in the kernel (in particular, the /proc/self/setgroups knob) to prevent this sort of privilege escalation.
References
Link Resource
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shadow/+bug/1729357 Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-09 Third Party Advisory
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:shadow_project:shadow:4.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

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Information

Published : 2018-02-15 20:29

Updated : 2024-02-04 19:46


NVD link : CVE-2018-7169

Mitre link : CVE-2018-7169

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2018-7169


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Products Affected

shadow_project

  • shadow
CWE
CWE-732

Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource