CVE-2021-44038

HIGH

Quagga < 1.2.4 - Privilege Escalation via Unsafe chown/chmod Operations

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue was discovered in Quagga through 1.2.4. Unsafe chown/chmod operations in the suggested spec file allow users (with control of the non-root-owned directory /etc/quagga) to escalate their privileges to root upon package installation or update.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1191890
Release Notes, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/Quagga/quagga/releases

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0076
EPSS Percentile 50.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-59
Status published
Products (1)
quagga/quagga < 1.2.4
Published Nov 19, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026