Ensure That a User Has Its Own Home Directory

Each user must have its own home directory for storing user-related data. The owner of the home directory must be the user. If the owner of the home directory is not the user, the user cannot read or write the home directory, or the user data stored in the home directory can be read or tampered...

Avoid the .forward File in the Home Directory

An email address can be configured in the .forward file. When a user receives an email, the email is automatically forwarded to the email address. If there are no email forwarding scenarios, you are advised to delete the .forward file. If the .forward file exists, emails containing sensitive...

Drive Data Should Be Managed in Partitions

When installing the OS, plan different partitions for OS data and service data based on the scenario. Do not store all data in the same drive or partition. Properly planning drive partitions avoids or reduces the following risks: 1. Log files are too large and use up the space of the service driv...

oath-toolkit: Local root exploit in a PAM module

A vulnerability was found in a PAM module, the oath-toolkit. The module gained a feature that allowed placing the OTP state file, called the usersfile, in the home directory of the to-be-authenticated user. The PAM module performed unsafe file operations in the users' home directories. Since PAM...

oath-toolkit: Local root exploit in a PAM module

A vulnerability was found in a PAM module, the oath-toolkit. The module gained a feature that allowed placing the OTP state file, called the usersfile, in the home directory of the to-be-authenticated user. The PAM module performed unsafe file operations in the users' home directories. Since PAM...

Medium: ansible-core

Issue Overview: A flaw was found in Ansible. The ansible-core user module can allow an unprivileged user to silently create or replace the contents of any file on any system path and take ownership of it when a privileged user executes the user module against the unprivileged user's home director...

CVE-2025-24832

Arbitrary file overwrite during home directory recovery due to improper symbolic link handling. The following products are affected: Acronis Backup plugin for cPanel & WHM Linux before build 1.8.4.866, Acronis Backup plugin for cPanel & WHM Linux before build 1.9.1.892, Acronis Backup extension f...

CVE-2025-24832

CVE-2025-24832 affects Acronis Backup plugin for cPanel & WHM (Linux) and Acronis Backup extension for Plesk (Linux). The root cause is improper handling of symbolic links, leading to arbitrary file overwrite during home directory recovery. Affected versions are: plugin 1.8.4.866 and earlier, plu...

CVE-2024-56433

shadow-utils aka shadow 4.4 through 4.17.0 establishes a default /etc/subuid behavior e.g., uid 100000 through 165535 for the first user account that can realistically conflict with the uids of users defined on locally administered networks, potentially leading to account takeover, e.g., by...

CVE-2024-56433

shadow-utils aka shadow 4.4 through 4.17.0 establishes a default /etc/subuid behavior e.g., uid 100000 through 165535 for the first user account that can realistically conflict with the uids of users defined on locally administered networks, potentially leading to account takeover, e.g., by...

ansible-core: Ansible-core user may read/write unauthorized content

A flaw was found in Ansible. The ansible-core user module can allow an unprivileged user to silently create or replace the contents of any file on any system path and take ownership of it when a privileged user executes the user module against the unprivileged user's home directory. If the...

SUSE CVE-2024-9902

A flaw was found in Ansible. The ansible-core user module can allow an unprivileged user to silently create or replace the contents of any file on any system path and take ownership of it when a privileged user executes the user module against the unprivileged user's home directory. If the...

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-9902

A flaw was found in Ansible. The ansible-core user module can allow an unprivileged user to silently create or replace the contents of any file on any system path and take ownership of it when a privileged user executes the user module against the unprivileged user's home directory. If the...

AZL-52417 CVE-2024-9902 affecting package ansible for versions less than 2.17.11-1

A flaw was found in Ansible. The ansible-core user module can allow an unprivileged user to silently create or replace the contents of any file on any system path and take ownership of it when a privileged user executes the user module against the unprivileged user's home directory. If the...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-9902

A flaw was found in Ansible. The ansible-core user module can allow an unprivileged user to silently create or replace the contents of any file on any system path and take ownership of it when a privileged user executes the user module against the unprivileged user's home directory. If the...

Microsoft Reveals macOS Vulnerability that Bypasses Privacy Controls in Safari Browser

Microsoft has disclosed details about a now-patched security flaw in Apple's Transparency, Consent, and Control TCC framework in macOS that has likely come under exploitation to get around a user's privacy preferences and access data. The shortcoming, codenamed HM Surf by the tech giant, is track...

OATH Toolkit 安全漏洞

OATH Toolkit is an open source toolkit from deepin. A security vulnerability exists in OATH Toolkit versions 2.6.7 through 2.6.11, which stems from a PAM module that allows a malicious user to compromise the environment when placing an OTP status file in a user's home directory...

RHEL 5 : libuser (Unpatched Vulnerability)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched. - libuser: TOCTOU race conditions by copying and removing directory trees CVE-2012-5630 - libuser: Security...

RHEL 6 : sssd (Unpatched Vulnerability)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched. - sssd: shell command injection in sssctl CVE-2021-3621 - The UNIX pipe which sudo uses to contact SSSD and...

CVE-2024-29735 Apache Airflow: Potentially harmful permission changing by log task handler

Improper Preservation of Permissions vulnerability in Apache Airflow.This issue affects Apache Airflow from 2.8.2 through 2.8.3. Airflow's local file task handler in Airflow incorrectly set permissions for all parent folders of log folder, in default configuration adding write access to Unix...