CVSS: 7.8EPSS: 0%CPEs: 4EXPL: 0CVE-2018-16588
https://notcve.org/view.php?id=CVE-2018-16588
26 Sep 2018 — 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 2... • http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2018-09/msg00073.html • CWE-732: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource •
CVSS: 5.3EPSS: 0%CPEs: 1EXPL: 1CVE-2018-7169 – Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5254-1
https://notcve.org/view.php?id=CVE-2018-7169
15 Feb 2018 — An issue was discovered in shadow 4.5. newgidmap (in shadow-utils) is setuid and allows an unprivileged user to be placed in a user namespace where setgroups(2) is permitted. This allows an attacker to remove themselves from a supplementary group, which may allow access to certain filesystem paths if the administrator has used "group blacklisting" (e.g., chmod g-rwx) to restrict access to paths. This flaw effectively reverts a security feature in the kernel (in particular, the /proc/self/setgroups knob) to ... • https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shadow/+bug/1729357 • CWE-732: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource •