Debian Shadow vulnerabilities

7 known vulnerabilities affecting debian/shadow.

Total CVEs
7
CISA KEV
0
Public exploits
1
Exploited in wild
0
Severity breakdown
HIGH3MEDIUM2LOW2

Vulnerabilities

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CVE-2017-20002HIGHCVSS 7.8v4.42021-03-17
CVE-2017-20002 [HIGH] CWE-269 CVE-2017-20002: The Debian shadow package before 1:4.5-1 for Shadow incorrectly lists pts/0 and pts/1 as physical te 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 machin
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CVE-2005-4890HIGHCVSS 7.8≥ 4.0.0, ≤ 4.1.52019-11-04
CVE-2005-4890 [HIGH] CWE-20 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 - use 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.
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CVE-2011-0721MEDIUMCVSS 6.4v1\2011-02-19
CVE-2011-0721 [MEDIUM] CWE-20 CVE-2011-0721: Multiple CRLF injection vulnerabilities in (1) chfn and (2) chsh in shadow 1:4.1.4 allow local users Multiple CRLF injection vulnerabilities in (1) chfn and (2) chsh in shadow 1:4.1.4 allow local users to add new users or groups to /etc/passwd via the GECOS field.
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CVE-2008-5394HIGHCVSS 7.2PoCv4.0.18.12008-12-09
CVE-2008-5394 [HIGH] CWE-59 CVE-2008-5394: /bin/login in shadow 4.0.18.1 in Debian GNU/Linux, and probably other Linux distributions, allows lo /bin/login in shadow 4.0.18.1 in Debian GNU/Linux, and probably other Linux distributions, allows local users in the utmp group to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file referenced in a line (aka ut_line) field in a utmp entry.
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CVE-2006-1174LOWCVSS 3.7≤ 4.0.7v4.0.0+6 more2006-05-28
CVE-2006-1174 [LOW] CWE-264 CVE-2006-1174: useradd in shadow-utils before 4.0.3, and possibly other versions before 4.0.8, does not provide a r useradd in shadow-utils before 4.0.3, and possibly other versions before 4.0.8, does not provide a required argument to the open function when creating a new user mailbox, which causes the mailbox to be created with unpredictable permissions and possibly allows attackers to read or modify the mailbox.
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CVE-2006-1844LOWCVSS 2.1v4.0.142006-04-19
CVE-2006-1844 [LOW] CVE-2006-1844: The Debian installer for the (1) shadow 4.0.14 and (2) base-config 2.53.10 packages includes sensiti The Debian installer for the (1) shadow 4.0.14 and (2) base-config 2.53.10 packages includes sensitive information in world-readable log files, including preseeded passwords and pppoeconf passwords, which might allow local users to gain privileges.
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CVE-2004-1001MEDIUMCVSS 4.6v4.0.4.12005-03-01
CVE-2004-1001 [MEDIUM] CVE-2004-1001: Unknown vulnerability in the passwd_check function in Shadow 4.0.4.1, and possibly other versions be Unknown vulnerability in the passwd_check function in Shadow 4.0.4.1, and possibly other versions before 4.0.5, allows local users to conduct unauthorized activities when an error from a pam_chauthtok function call is not properly handled.
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