CVE-2017-12424 Information

Description

In shadow before 4.5 the newusers tool could be made to manipulate internal data structures in ways unintended by the authors. Malformed input may lead to crashes (with a buffer overflow or other memory corruption) or other unspecified behaviors. This crosses a privilege boundary in for example certain web-hosting environments in which a Control Panel allows an unprivileged user account to create subaccounts.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=756630 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shadow/+bug/1266675 https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/commit/954e3d2e7113e9ac06632aee3c69b8d818cc8952 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-16

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

9.8