CVE-2019-19882 – Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202008-09

https://notcve.org/view.php?id=CVE-2019-19882

18 Dec 2019 — shadow 4.8, in certain circumstances affecting at least Gentoo, Arch Linux, and Void Linux, allows local users to obtain root access because setuid programs are misconfigured. Specifically, this affects shadow 4.8 when compiled using --with-libpam but without explicitly passing --disable-account-tools-setuid, and without a PAM configuration suitable for use with setuid account management tools. This combination leads to account management tools (groupadd, groupdel, groupmod, useradd, userdel, usermod) that ... • https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/64836 • CWE-732: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource •