Description
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.
Published: 2020-05-27
Score: 6.3 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-3161 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-5169-1 oddjob vulnerability
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Redhat Enterprise Linux Oddjob
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

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

Reserved: 2020-03-20T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-10737

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

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

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:55:58.020

Link: CVE-2020-10737

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

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

Links: CVE-2020-10737 - Bugzilla

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