CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-3844

Privilege Chaining

Published: Apr 26, 2019 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.6 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
4.5 MODERATE
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Ubuntu
LOW

It was discovered that a systemd service that uses DynamicUser property can get new privileges through the execution of SUID binaries, which would allow to create binaries owned by the service transient group with the setgid bit set. A local attacker may use this flaw to access resources that will be owned by a potentially different service in the future, when the GID will be recycled.

Weakness

Two distinct privileges, roles, capabilities, or rights can be combined in a way that allows an entity to perform unsafe actions that would not be allowed without that combination.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Systemd Systemd_project * 242 (excluding)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat systemd-0:239-29.el8 *
Systemd Ubuntu bionic *
Systemd Ubuntu cosmic *
Systemd Ubuntu disco *

Potential Mitigations

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