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CVE-2021-44038
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2021-11-19T19:15:09.287 · Last modified 2026-06-17T04:11:50.040

Summary

An issue was discovered in Quagga through 1.2.4. Unsafe chown/chmod operations in the suggested spec file allow users (with control of the non-root-owned directory /etc/quagga) to escalate their privileges to root upon package installation or update.

Affected products

quagga — quagga

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References

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