Privilege Chaining Affecting systemd package, versions <242-4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-SYSTEMD-1560735
  • published26 Apr 2019
  • disclosed26 Apr 2019

Introduced: 26 Apr 2019

CVE-2019-3844  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-268  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 systemd to version 242-4 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream systemd package and not the systemd package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

It was discovered that a systemd service that uses DynamicUser property can get new privileges through the execution of SUID binaries, which would allow to create binaries owned by the service transient group with the setgid bit set. A local attacker may use this flaw to access resources that will be owned by a potentially different service in the future, when the GID will be recycled.

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