CVE-2012-3490 Affecting htcondor/htcondor package, versions [7.6.0,7.6.10)[7.8.0,7.8.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.63% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-HTCONDORHTCONDOR-2364683
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed9 Jan 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Jan 2020

CVE-2012-3490  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade htcondor/htcondor to version 7.6.10, 7.8.4 or higher.

Overview

The (1) my_popenv_impl and (2) my_spawnv functions in src/condor_utils/my_popen.cpp and the (3) systemCommand function in condor_vm-gahp/vmgahp_common.cpp in Condor 7.6.x before 7.6.10 and 7.8.x before 7.8.4 does not properly check the return value of setuid calls, which might cause a subprocess to be created with root privileges and allow remote attackers to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

CVSS Base Scores

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