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Paper/Archive/CVE-2021-40084

CVE-2021-40084

mitre — opensysusers through 0.6 does not safely use eval on files in sysusers.d that may contain shell metacharacters.

EPSS 3%CVSS 9.8
critical.is priorityof 100
47
CVSS 9.8 (NVD)9.8 / 10 × 3029.4Not in CISA KEV+300.0EPSS percentile 87.1.871 × 2017.4No public exploit+100.0SSVC exploitation: unknown+100.0
Description · from the CVE record

opensysusers through 0.6 does not safely use eval on files in sysusers.d that may contain shell metacharacters. For example, it allows command execution via a crafted GECOS field whereas systemd-sysusers (a program with the same specification) does not do that.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
n/an/a–CNA

Scores by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

refbugs.debian.org/992058refgithub.com/artix-linux/opensysusers/releases