UbuntuUSN-5169-1oddjob vulnerability
6.3 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
6.2 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
3.7 Low
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
11.6%
Releases
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 18.04 ESM
- Ubuntu 16.04 ESM
Packages
- oddjob - D-Bus service which runs odd jobs – daemon
Details
Matthias Gerstner discovered that there was a race condition in the mkhomedir
tool shipped with the oddjob package. An authenticated attacker could use this
to setup a symlink attack and change permissions on files on the host filesystem.
| OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu | 20.04 | noarch | oddjob | < 0.34.4-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 | UNKNOWN |
| Ubuntu | 20.04 | noarch | oddjob | < 0.34.4-1 | UNKNOWN |
| Ubuntu | 20.04 | noarch | oddjob-dbgsym | < 0.34.4-1 | UNKNOWN |
| Ubuntu | 20.04 | noarch | oddjob-mkhomedir | < 0.34.4-1 | UNKNOWN |
| Ubuntu | 20.04 | noarch | oddjob-mkhomedir-dbgsym | < 0.34.4-1 | UNKNOWN |
| Ubuntu | 20.04 | noarch | oddjob-mkhomedir | < 0.34.4-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 | UNKNOWN |
| Ubuntu | 18.04 | noarch | oddjob | < 0.34.3-4ubuntu0.1~esm1 | UNKNOWN |
| Ubuntu | 18.04 | noarch | oddjob | < 0.34.3-4 | UNKNOWN |
| Ubuntu | 18.04 | noarch | oddjob-dbgsym | < 0.34.3-4 | UNKNOWN |
| Ubuntu | 18.04 | noarch | oddjob-mkhomedir | < 0.34.3-4 | UNKNOWN |
References
Related
6.3 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
6.2 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
3.7 Low
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
11.6%