CVE-2023-29383

A flaw was found in Shadow, where it is possible to inject control characters into fields provided to the SUID program change fingerchfn. Although it is not possible to exploit this directly for example, adding a new user fails because \n is in the block list, it is possible to misrepresent the...

Design/Logic Flaw

In Shadow 4.13, it is possible to inject control characters into fields provided to the SUID program chfn change finger. Although it is not possible to exploit this directly e.g., adding a new user fails because \n is in the block list, it is possible to misrepresent the /etc/passwd file when...

UBUNTU-CVE-2023-29383

In Shadow 4.13, it is possible to inject control characters into fields provided to the SUID program chfn change finger. Although it is not possible to exploit this directly e.g., adding a new user fails because \n is in the block list, it is possible to misrepresent the /etc/passwd file when...

SUSE CVE-2004-1269

lppasswd in CUPS 1.1.22 does not remove the passwd.new file if it encounters a file-size resource limit while writing to passwd.new, which causes subsequent invocations of lppasswd to fail...

SUSE CVE-2004-1268

lppasswd in CUPS 1.1.22 ignores write errors when modifying the CUPS passwd file, which allows local users to corrupt the file by filling the associated file system and triggering the write errors...

SUSE CVE-2011-1521

The urllib and urllib2 modules in Python 2.x before 2.7.2 and 3.x before 3.2.1 process Location headers that specify redirection to file: URLs, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service resource consumption via a crafted URL, as...

SUSE CVE-2015-3246

libuser before 0.56.13-8 and 0.60 before 0.60-7, as used in the userhelper program in the usermode package, directly modifies /etc/passwd, which allows local users to cause a denial of service inconsistent file state by causing an error during the modification. NOTE: this issue can be combined wi...

SUSE CVE-2022-4318

A vulnerability was found in cri-o. This issue allows the addition of arbitrary lines into /etc/passwd by use of a specially crafted environment variable...

SUSE CVE-2022-32275

Grafana 8.4.3 allows reading files via for example a /dashboard/snapshot/%7B%7Bconstructor.constructor'/.. /.. /.. /.. /.. /.. /.. /.. /etc/passwd URI. NOTE: the vendor's position is that there is no vulnerability; this request yields a benign error page, not /etc/passwd content...

PT-2022-7296

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions cri-o versions prior to 1.26.0 Description A flaw exists in the CRI-O Container Engine that allows the addition of arbitrary lines into a container's /etc/passwd file. This is achieved by using a specially crafted environment variable containi...

dovecot: Privilege escalation when similar master and non-master passdbs are used

A vulnerability was found in the Dovecot IMAP Server. When two passdb configuration entries exist in the Dovecot configuration, which have the same driver and args settings, the incorrect usernamefilter and mechanism settings can be applied to passdb definitions. These incorrect settings can lead...

Hands-On IoT Hacking: Rapid7 at DEF CON 30 IoT Village, Pt. 3

Welcome back to our blog series on Rapid7's IoT Village exercise from DEF CON 30. In our previous posts, we covered how to achieve access to flash memory and how to extract file system data from the device. In this post, we'll cover how to modify the data we've extracted. Modify extracted file...

PT-2022-15295

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Download Monitor WordPress plugin versions prior to 4.5.91 Description The issue allows high privilege users, such as administrators, to download sensitive files like wp-config.php or /etc/passwd, even in hardened environments or multisite...

CVE-2022-25213

Improper physical access control and use of hard-coded credentials in /etc/passwd permits an attacker with physical access to obtain a root shell via an unprotected UART port on the device. The same port exposes an unauthenticated Das U-Boot BIOS shell...

PT-2022-17152 · Phicomm · K2 Firmware +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: No specific software or version is mentioned, so the description is: Device affected versions not specified Description: The issue concerns improper physical access control and the use of hard-coded credentials in /etc/passwd. This allows an...

CVE-2021-46381

Local File Inclusion due to path traversal in D-Link DAP-1620 leads to unauthorized internal files reading /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow...

Exploit for Code Injection in Vmware Spring_Cloud_Gateway

CVE-2022-22947-RcePOC Batch URL detection for Spring-Clou...

CVE-2022-22795

Signiant - Manager+Agents XML External Entity XXE - Extract internal files of the affected machine An attacker can read all the system files, the product is running with root on Linux systems and nt/authority on windows systems, which allows him to access and extract any file on the systems, such...

The vulnerability of the /etc/passwd component in the D-Link DSR-500N router’s microprogramming system allows a hacker to gain access to the device’s basic embedded Linux operating system.

The vulnerability of the /etc/passwd component in the D-Link DSR-500N router’s microprogramming system is related to the use of pre-installed user accounts. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to gain access to the device’s basic embedded Linux operating system...

LinuxCatScale - Incident Response Collection And Processing Scripts With Automated Reporting Scripts

Linux CatScale is a bash script that uses live of the land tools to collect extensive data from Linux based hosts. The data aims to help DFIR professionals triage and scope incidents. An Elk Stack instance also is configured to consume the output and assist the analysis process. Usage This script...