Vulnerabilites related to Red Hat - oddjob
cve-2020-10737
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-05-27 00:00
Modified
2024-08-04 11:14
Summary
A race condition was found in the mkhomedir tool shipped with the oddjob package in versions before 0.34.5 and 0.34.6 wherein, during the home creation, mkhomedir copies the /etc/skel directory into the newly created home and changes its ownership to the home's user without properly checking the homedir path. This flaw allows an attacker to leverage this issue by creating a symlink point to a target folder, which then has its ownership transferred to the new home directory's unprivileged user.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Red Hat oddjob Version: before 0.34.5
Version: before 0.34.6
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