PatchTheCVEshadow vulnerabilities and fixes
Recent CVEs affecting shadow, with upgrade or downgrade steps. 9 tracked.
shadow has 9 tracked vulnerabilities, 1 critical. A fixed release or vendor patch exists for 4. Most recent: 2023-04-14. Highest priority: CVE-2017-12424 (score 66/100).
- CVE-2023-29383 LOW 3.3 DOWNGRADE In Shadow 4.13, it is possible to inject control characters into fields provided to the SUID program chfn (cha
- CVE-2013-4235 MEDIUM 4.7 MITIGATE MITIGATE shadow: TOCTOU (time-of-check time-of-use) race condition when copying and removing directory trees
- CVE-2019-16110 HIGH 8.1 UPGRADE The network protocol of Blade Shadow though 2.13.3 allows remote attackers to take control of a Shadow instanc
- CVE-2018-7169 MEDIUM 5.3 DOWNGRADE An issue was discovered in shadow 4.5
- CVE-2018-16588 HIGH 7.8 UPGRADE Privilege escalation can occur in the SUSE useradd.c code in useradd, as distributed in the SUSE shadow packag
- CVE-2017-20002 HIGH 7.8 DOWNGRADE MITIGATE The Debian shadow package before 1:4.5-1 for Shadow incorrectly lists pts/0 and pts/1 as physical terminals in
- CVE-2017-12424 CRITICAL 9.8 UPGRADE MITIGATE In shadow before 4.5, the newusers tool could be made to manipulate internal data structures in ways unintende
- CVE-2016-6252 HIGH 7.8 DOWNGRADE Integer overflow in shadow 4.2.1 allows local users to gain privileges via crafted input to newuidmap.
- CVE-2005-4890 HIGH 7.8 UPGRADE UPGRADE There is a possible tty hijacking in shadow 4.x before 4.1.5 and sudo 1.x before 1.7.4 via "su - user -c progr
FAQ
How do I fix shadow vulnerabilities?
Open the CVE for your version, check the affected range, then follow the listed action: upgrade to the fixed release, or downgrade or mitigate if no fix exists yet. Commands for each OS are shown on every CVE page.
Is shadow being exploited right now?
None of the tracked shadow CVEs are on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list at the moment. This is checked every 20 minutes.
Which shadow CVE should I patch first?
CVE-2017-12424 currently ranks highest (66/100): In shadow before 4.5, the newusers tool could be made to manipulate internal data structures in ways unintende.