CVE-2019-19191

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Shibboleth Service Provider (SP) 3.x before 3.1.0 shipped a spec file that calls chown on files in a directory controlled by the service user (the shibd account) after installation. This allows the user to escalate to root by pointing symlinks to files such as /etc/shadow.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-59

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00017.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1157471Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/browse/SSPCPP-874Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00017.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1157471Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/browse/SSPCPP-874Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Nov 21, 2019
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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