CVE-2019-19191: 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…

PriorityP339high7.8CVSS 3.1

AVLACLPRLUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

0.48%

37.9th percentile

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

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	shibboleth-sp	< shibboleth-sp 3.1.0+dfsg1-2 (bookworm)	shibboleth-sp 3.1.0+dfsg1-2 (bookworm)
internet2	shibboleth-sp	>= 0 < 3.1.0+dfsg1-2	3.1.0+dfsg1-2
internet2	shibboleth-sp	>= 0 < 3.1.0+dfsg1-2	3.1.0+dfsg1-2
internet2	shibboleth-sp	>= 0 < 3.1.0+dfsg1-2	3.1.0+dfsg1-2
internet2	shibboleth-sp	>= 0 < 3.1.0+dfsg1-2	3.1.0+dfsg1-2
shibboleth	service_provider	>= 3.0.0 < 3.1.0	3.1.0

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.17.8HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.07.2HIGHAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

osv7.8HIGH

vendor_debian7.8LOW

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