High severity · published Nov 19, 2021
CVE-2021-44038
An issue was discovered in Quagga through 1.2.4
7.8
CVSS
0.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.8% · higher than 56% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
QU
Quagga · Quagga
through 1.2.4 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-44038
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-44038
Exploit
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1191890
Release Notes
https://github.com/Quagga/quagga/releases
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