CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-19191

7.8 HIGH Published 2019-11-21 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-11-21
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-59

Description

Shibboleth Service Provider (SP) 3.x before 3.1.0 shipped a spec file that calls chown on files in a directory controlled by the service user (the shibd account) after installation. This allows the user to escalate to root by pointing symlinks to files such as /etc/shadow.

Affected configurations

• shibboleth service provider (>= 3.0.0 < 3.1.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness

References