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CVE-2018-16588

Published: Sep 26, 2018Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-732
7.8HIGH
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
0.3%
Top 77.7%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available
Self-Check
OpenVAS

Description

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.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:LAC:LPR:LUI:NS:UC:HI:HA:H
Exploitability
AV:LAttack Vector
Local
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:LPrivileges Required
Low
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:HConfidentiality
High
I:HIntegrity
High
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-732

Affected Products

Novell Inc.
commercial·DEaka suse
shadowOn-premLibrary
OSS Libraries / generic-library
SUSE shadowOn-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
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Exploitability

Official Patch Available
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MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique
Privilege Escalation
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References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2018-09/msg00073.html
lists.opensuse.org
https://cxsecurity.com/cveshow/CVE-2018-16588/
cxsecurity.com
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16588
nvd.nist.gov
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