CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-44038

7.8 HIGH Published 2021-11-19 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-11-19
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

An issue was discovered in Quagga through 1.2.4. Unsafe chown/chmod operations in the suggested spec file allow users (with control of the non-root-owned directory /etc/quagga) to escalate their privileges to root upon package installation or update.

Affected configurations

• quagga quagga (<= 1.2.4)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness

References