CVE-2019-3811

Public on 2019-01-15
Modified on 2019-10-30
Description

A vulnerability was found in sssd where, if a user was configured with no home directory set, sssd would return '/' (the root directory) instead of '' (the empty string / no home directory). This could impact services that restrict the user's filesystem access to within their home directory through chroot().

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
4.1
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 sssd 2019-10-08 21:07 ALAS-2019-1307
Amazon Linux 2 - Core sssd 2019-10-28 17:45 ALAS2-2019-1343

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 4.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 2.7 AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 5.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H