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CVE-2019-15793
published 2020-04-24

CVE-2019-15793: In shiftfs, a non-upstream patch to the Linux kernel included in the Ubuntu 5.0 and 5.3 kernel series, several locations which shift ids translate user/group…

PriorityP348high8.8CVSS 3.1
AVLACLPRLUINSCCHIHAH
EXPLOIT
EPSS
0.69%
47.9th percentile
In shiftfs, a non-upstream patch to the Linux kernel included in the Ubuntu 5.0 and 5.3 kernel series, several locations which shift ids translate user/group ids before performing operations in the lower filesystem were translating them into init_user_ns, whereas they should have been translated into the s_user_ns for the lower filesystem. This resulted in using ids other than the intended ones in the lower fs, which likely did not map into the shifts s_user_ns. A local attacker could use this to possibly bypass discretionary access control permissions.

Affected

7 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
canonicalubuntu_linux
canonicalubuntu_linux
debianlinux
linuxlinux_kernel
linuxlinux_kernel
ubuntushiftfs_in_the_linux_kernel>= 5.0 kernel < 5.0.0-35.385.0.0-35.38
ubuntushiftfs_in_the_linux_kernel>= 5.3.0-11.12 < 5.3 kernel*5.3 kernel*

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.18.8HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvdv2.04.6MEDIUMAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
osv8.8HIGH
vendor_debian6.5LOW
vendor_ubuntu6.5MEDIUM
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