CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-16588

7.8 HIGH Published 2018-09-26 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-09-26
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-732

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.

Affected configurations

• suse shadow (<= 4.2.1-27.9.1) • suse shadow (<= 4.5-5.39)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource weakness

References