CVE-2021-44038
HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: November 19, 2021 at 06:29 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 04:11 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorQuagga
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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.8%
Description
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.
References (2)
x_refsource_MISCExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1191890x_refsource_MISCRelease NotesThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/Quagga/quagga/releasesCVSS
- Attack Vector
- LOCAL
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- LOW
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- HIGH
- Integrity
- HIGH
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-59
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