Vulnerability · Published Nov 19, 2021 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2021-44038

High 7.8

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.8% (higher than 56% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)7.8High

Exploit odds (30 days)0.8%top 43.7% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

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 (as reported)

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

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1191890 x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/Quagga/quagga/releases x_refsource_MISC