Missing Authentication for Critical Function The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package shadowsocks-libev (opens in a new tab)
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Start learning- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2010-SHADOWSOCKSLIBEV-1030487
- published10 Sept 2020
- disclosed3 Dec 2019
Introduced: 3 Dec 2019
CVE-2019-5164 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream shadowsocks-libev package and not the shadowsocks-libev package as distributed by Ubuntu.
An exploitable code execution vulnerability exists in the ss-manager binary of Shadowsocks-libev 3.3.2. Specially crafted network packets sent to ss-manager can cause an arbitrary binary to run, resulting in code execution and privilege escalation. An attacker can send network packets to trigger this vulnerability.