Detections
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CVE-2019-19191
high
Description
Shibboleth Service Provider (SP) 3.x before 3.1.0 shipped a spec file that calls chown on files in a directory controlled by the service user (the shibd account) after installation. This allows the user to escalate to root by pointing symlinks to files such as /etc/shadow.
References
https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/browse/SSPCPP-874
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00017.html