A race condition was found in the mkhomedir tool shipped with the oddjob package in versions before 0.34.5 and 0.34.6 wherein, during the home creation, mkhomedir copies the /etc/skel directory into the newly created home and changes its ownership to the home's user without properly checking the homedir path. This flaw allows an attacker to leverage this issue by creating a symlink point to a target folder, which then has its ownership transferred to the new home directory's unprivileged user.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2020-05-27T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-04T11:14:14.865Z

Reserved: 2020-03-20T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-10737

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-05-27T01:15:09.230

Modified: 2023-11-07T03:14:18.430

Link: CVE-2020-10737

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2020-05-07T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-10737 - Bugzilla