CVE-2024-56433

Published Dec 26, 2024

Last updated 2 months ago

Overview

Description
shadow-utils (aka shadow) 4.4 through 4.17.0 establishes a default /etc/subuid behavior (e.g., uid 100000 through 165535 for the first user account) that can realistically conflict with the uids of users defined on locally administered networks, potentially leading to account takeover, e.g., by leveraging newuidmap for access to an NFS home directory (or same-host resources in the case of remote logins by these local network users). NOTE: it may also be argued that system administrators should not have assigned uids, within local networks, that are within the range that can occur in /etc/subuid.
Source
cve@mitre.org
NVD status
Received
CNA Tags
disputed

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Secondary
Base score
3.6
Impact score
2.5
Exploitability score
1
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Severity
LOW

Weaknesses

cve@mitre.org
CWE-1188

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