Privilege escalation can occur in the SUSE useradd.c code in useradd, as distributed in the SUSE shadow package through 4.2.1-27.9.1 for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 (SLE-12) and through 4.5-5.39 for SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 (SLE-15). Non-existing intermediate directories are created with mode 0777 during user creation. Given that they are world-writable, local attackers might use this for privilege escalation and other unspecified attacks. NOTE: this would affect non-SUSE users who took useradd.c code from a 2014-04-02 upstream pull request; however, no non-SUSE distribution is known to be affected.
References
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http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2018-09/msg00073.html | Vendor Advisory |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2018-09-26T22:00:00
Updated: 2018-09-26T21:57:01
Reserved: 2018-09-06T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2018-16588
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NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2018-09-26T22:29:00.997
Modified: 2019-10-03T00:03:26.223
Link: CVE-2018-16588
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CWE