CVE-2019-5021 Affecting system-user-root package, versions <20190513-3.3.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
6.26% (93rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-SYSTEMUSERROOT-2750855
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed11 Oct 2019

Introduced: 11 Oct 2019

CVE-2019-5021  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.1 system-user-root to version 20190513-3.3.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream system-user-root package and not the system-user-root package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.1 relevant fixed versions and status.

Versions of the Official Alpine Linux Docker images (since v3.3) contain a NULL password for the root user. This vulnerability appears to be the result of a regression introduced in December of 2015. Due to the nature of this issue, systems deployed using affected versions of the Alpine Linux container which utilize Linux PAM, or some other mechanism which uses the system shadow file as an authentication database, may accept a NULL password for the root user.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1