CVE-2019-19882 SUSE CVE security@suse.de SUSE Security Team SUSE CVE-2019-19882 Interim 1 21 2025-02-17T01:48:18Z current 2021-05-30T14:33:54Z 2025-02-17T01:48:18Z cve-database/bin/generate-cvrf-cve.pl 2020-12-27T01:00:00Z CVE-2019-19882 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 can easily be used by unprivileged local users to escalate privileges to root in multiple ways. This issue became much more relevant in approximately December 2019 when an unrelated bug was fixed (i.e., the chmod calls to suidusbins were fixed in the upstream Makefile which is now included in the release version 4.8). The CVRF data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0). https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/ SUSE Security Ratings SUSE CaaS Platform 3.0 SUSE Container as a Service Platform 2.0 SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP1 SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1-LTSS SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-LTSS SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Teradata 12 SP3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP1 shadow shadow as a component of SUSE CaaS Platform 3.0 shadow as a component of SUSE Container as a Service Platform 2.0 shadow as a component of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4 shadow as a component of SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP4 shadow as a component of SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 shadow as a component of SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 shadow as a component of SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP1 shadow as a component of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1-LTSS shadow as a component of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS shadow as a component of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS shadow as a component of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 shadow as a component of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-LTSS shadow as a component of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 shadow as a component of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Teradata 12 SP3 shadow as a component of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 shadow as a component of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 shadow as a component of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 shadow as a component of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 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 can easily be used by unprivileged local users to escalate privileges to root in multiple ways. This issue became much more relevant in approximately December 2019 when an unrelated bug was fixed (i.e., the chmod calls to suidusbins were fixed in the upstream Makefile which is now included in the release version 4.8). CVE-2019-19882 SUSE CaaS Platform 3.0:shadow SUSE Container as a Service Platform 2.0:shadow SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4:shadow SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP4:shadow SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5:shadow SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP1:shadow SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15:shadow SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1-LTSS:shadow SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS:shadow SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS:shadow SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4:shadow SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5:shadow SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Teradata 12 SP3:shadow SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2:shadow SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3:shadow SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4:shadow SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5:shadow important 6.9 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H