Vulnerability Details CVE-2017-12424
In shadow before 4.5, the newusers tool could be made to manipulate internal data structures in ways unintended by the authors. Malformed input may lead to crashes (with a buffer overflow or other memory corruption) or other unspecified behaviors. This crosses a privilege boundary in, for example, certain web-hosting environments in which a Control Panel allows an unprivileged user account to create subaccounts.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.006
EPSS Ranking 67.4%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 9.8
CVSS v2 Score 7.5
References
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=756630
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shadow/+bug/1266675
- https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/commit/954e3d2e7113e9ac06632aee3c69b8d818cc8952
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00020.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-16
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=756630
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shadow/+bug/1266675
- https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/commit/954e3d2e7113e9ac06632aee3c69b8d818cc8952
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00020.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-16
Products affected by CVE-2017-12424
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cpe:2.3:a:shadow_project:shadow:4.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:shadow_project:shadow:4.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:shadow_project:shadow:4.0.10
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cpe:2.3:a:shadow_project:shadow:4.0.11
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cpe:2.3:a:shadow_project:shadow:4.0.11.1
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cpe:2.3:a:shadow_project:shadow:4.0.12
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cpe:2.3:a:shadow_project:shadow:4.0.13
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cpe:2.3:a:shadow_project:shadow:4.0.14
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cpe:2.3:a:shadow_project:shadow:4.0.15
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cpe:2.3:a:shadow_project:shadow:4.0.16
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cpe:2.3:a:shadow_project:shadow:4.0.17
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cpe:2.3:a:shadow_project:shadow:4.0.18
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cpe:2.3:a:shadow_project:shadow:4.0.18.1
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cpe:2.3:a:shadow_project:shadow:4.0.18.2
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cpe:2.3:a:shadow_project:shadow:4.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:shadow_project:shadow:4.0.3
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cpe:2.3:a:shadow_project:shadow:4.0.4
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cpe:2.3:a:shadow_project:shadow:4.0.4.1
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cpe:2.3:a:shadow_project:shadow:4.0.5
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cpe:2.3:a:shadow_project:shadow:4.0.6
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cpe:2.3:a:shadow_project:shadow:4.0.7
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cpe:2.3:a:shadow_project:shadow:4.0.8
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cpe:2.3:a:shadow_project:shadow:4.0.9
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cpe:2.3:a:shadow_project:shadow:4.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:shadow_project:shadow:4.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:shadow_project:shadow:4.1.2
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cpe:2.3:a:shadow_project:shadow:4.1.2.1
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cpe:2.3:a:shadow_project:shadow:4.1.2.2
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cpe:2.3:a:shadow_project:shadow:4.1.3
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cpe:2.3:a:shadow_project:shadow:4.1.3.1
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cpe:2.3:a:shadow_project:shadow:4.1.4
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cpe:2.3:a:shadow_project:shadow:4.1.4.1
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cpe:2.3:a:shadow_project:shadow:4.1.4.2
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cpe:2.3:a:shadow_project:shadow:4.1.5
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cpe:2.3:a:shadow_project:shadow:4.1.5.1
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cpe:2.3:a:shadow_project:shadow:4.2.1
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cpe:2.3:a:shadow_project:shadow:4.3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:shadow_project:shadow:4.3.1
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cpe:2.3:a:shadow_project:shadow:4.4
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0