CVE-2016-4989

CWE-77 — Command Injection6 documents5 sources
Severity
7.0HIGH
EPSS
0.0%
top 84.95%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
5
Setroubleshoot Project SetroubleshootRedhat Enterprise Linux DesktopRedhat Enterprise Linux HPC Node+2 more
Timeline
PublishedApr 11
Latest updateMay 17

Description

setroubleshoot allows local users to bypass an intended container protection mechanism and execute arbitrary commands by (1) triggering an SELinux denial with a crafted file name, which is handled by the _set_tpath function in audit_data.py or via a crafted (2) local_id or (3) analysis_id field in a crafted XML document to the run_fix function in SetroubleshootFixit.py, related to the subprocess.check_output and commands.getstatusoutput functions, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-4445.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.0 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages5 packages

Patches

Patch: securitytracker.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-585r-x79p-835g: setroubleshoot allows local users to bypass an intended container protection mechanism and execute arbitrary commands by (1) triggering an SELinux den↗2022-05-17
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CVEList
CVE-2016-4989: setroubleshoot allows local users to bypass an intended container protection mechanism and execute arbitrary commands by (1) triggering an SELinux den↗2017-04-11
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Red Hat
setroubleshoot: command injection issues↗2016-06-21
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-4989 setroubleshoot: command injection issues [fedora-all]↗2016-06-21
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-4989 setroubleshoot: command injection issues↗2016-06-14
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