HIGH 7.8 Microsoft
CVE-2021-44038
An issue was discovered in Quagga through 1.2.4. Unsafe chown/chmod operations in the suggested spec file allow users (with control of the non-root-owned directory /etc/quagga) to escalate their privileges to root upon package installation or update.
Microsoft Security Update 2021-Nov: An issue was discovered in Quagga through 1.2.4. Unsafe chown/chmod operations in the suggested spec file allow users (with control of the non-root-owned directory /etc/quagga) to escalate their privileges to root upon package installation or update.
Affected Products
- cbl2 quagga on CBL Mariner 2.0
References
- https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2021-44038
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-44038
This high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.8 was published on 2021-11-09 via Microsoft. Affected: cbl2 quagga on CBL Mariner 2.0.
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