CVE-2019-15900

CRITICAL

slicer69 doas <6.2 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

Description

An issue was discovered in slicer69 doas before 6.2 on certain platforms other than OpenBSD. On platforms without strtonum(3), sscanf was used without checking for error cases. Instead, the uninitialized variable errstr was checked and in some cases returned success even if sscanf failed. The result was that, instead of reporting that the supplied username or group name did not exist, it would execute the command as root.

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0035
EPSS Percentile 56.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-863 CWE-252 CWE-908 CWE-754
Status published

Affected Products (1)

doas_project/doas < 6.2

Timeline

Published Oct 18, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026