Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information Affecting util-linux package, versions [,2.37.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-UTILLINUX-2401226
  • published18 Feb 2022
  • disclosed14 Feb 2022
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Feb 2022

CVE-2022-0563  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-209  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade util-linux to version 2.37.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information in chfn and chsh utilities, when compiled with readline support. The readline library uses an INPUTRC environment variable to get a path to the library config file. When the library cannot parse the specified file, it prints an error message containing data from the file. This could potentially lead to privilege escalation.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1