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shadow

Vendor: blade-group

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Actively Exploited 0 CISA KEV List
PoC / Exploits 1 Code Available
Total RCEs 1 Remote Access
Total CVEs 1 Total Indexed
Avg. EPSS 0.89% Exploit Prob.
Latest CVE CVE-2023-29383 Apr 14

Security Vulnerability Index

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3.3 CVSS
CVE-2023-29383

In Shadow 4.13, it is possible to inject control characters into fields provided to the SUID program chfn (change finger). Although it is not possible to exploit this directly (e.g., adding a new user fails because \n is in the block list), it is possible to misrepresent the /etc/passwd file when viewed. Use of \r manipulations and Unicode characters to work around blocking of the : character make it possible to give the impression that a new user has been added. In other words, an adversary may be able to convince a system administrator to take the system offline (an indirect, social-engineered denial of service) by demonstrating that "cat /etc/passwd" shows a rogue user account.

EPSS: 0.43%
7.8 CVSS
CVE-2017-20002

The Debian shadow package before 1:4.5-1 for Shadow incorrectly lists pts/0 and pts/1 as physical terminals in /etc/securetty. This allows local users to login as password-less users even if they are connected by non-physical means such as SSH (hence bypassing PAM's nullok_secure configuration). This notably affects environments such as virtual machines automatically generated with a default blank root password, allowing all local users to escalate privileges.

EPSS: 0.40%
7.8 CVSS
CVE-2019-19882

shadow 4.8, in certain circumstances affecting at least Gentoo, Arch Linux, and Void Linux, allows local users to obtain root access because setuid programs are misconfigured. Specifically, this affects shadow 4.8 when compiled using --with-libpam but without explicitly passing --disable-account-tools-setuid, and without a PAM configuration suitable for use with setuid account management tools. This combination leads to account management tools (groupadd, groupdel, groupmod, useradd, userdel, usermod) that can easily be used by unprivileged local users to escalate privileges to root in multiple ways. This issue became much more relevant in approximately December 2019 when an unrelated bug was fixed (i.e., the chmod calls to suidusbins were fixed in the upstream Makefile which is now included in the release version 4.8).

EPSS: 0.52%
4.7 CVSS
CVE-2013-4235

shadow: TOCTOU (time-of-check time-of-use) race condition when copying and removing directory trees

EPSS: 0.31%
8.1 CVSS
CVE-2019-16110
RCE

The network protocol of Blade Shadow though 2.13.3 allows remote attackers to take control of a Shadow instance and execute arbitrary code by only knowing the victim's IP address, because packet data can be injected into the unencrypted UDP packet stream.

EPSS: 1.69%
7.8 CVSS
CVE-2005-4890

There is a possible tty hijacking in shadow 4.x before 4.1.5 and sudo 1.x before 1.7.4 via "su - user -c program". The user session can be escaped to the parent session by using the TIOCSTI ioctl to push characters into the input buffer to be read by the next process.

EPSS: 0.63%
7.8 CVSS
CVE-2018-16588

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.

EPSS: 0.30%
5.3 CVSS
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.

EPSS: 1.57%
9.8 CVSS
CVE-2017-12424

In shadow before 4.5, the newusers tool could be made to manipulate internal data structures in ways unintended by the authors. Malformed input may lead to crashes (with a buffer overflow or other memory corruption) or other unspecified behaviors. This crosses a privilege boundary in, for example, certain web-hosting environments in which a Control Panel allows an unprivileged user account to create subaccounts.

EPSS: 2.66%
7.8 CVSS
CVE-2016-6252

Integer overflow in shadow 4.2.1 allows local users to gain privileges via crafted input to newuidmap.

EPSS: 0.41%