CVE-2021-40084

2021-08-2500:21:25

mitre

www.cve.org

opensysusers vulnerability

command execution

gecos field

shell metacharacters

systemd-sysusers specification

AI Score

9.7

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.005

Percentile

75.8%

JSON

opensysusers through 0.6 does not safely use eval on files in sysusers.d that may contain shell metacharacters. For example, it allows command execution via a crafted GECOS field whereas systemd-sysusers (a program with the same specification) does not do that.