USN-5745-2: shadow Ubuntu

CVSS: UnknownPublished
Published 29-11-2022Last modified 29-06-2026
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Vulnerability summary

USN-5745-2 is a vulnerability in shadow Ubuntu with no CVSS score yet.

Overall risk
0/100
0100
Minimal · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
Not scored
010
No CVSS score recorded
EPSS score
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KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 0 · Related 1
CVE-2013-4235

Timeline

  1. 29-11-2022
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 29-06-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

shadow regression USN-5745-1 fixed vulnerabilities in shadow. Unfortunately that update introduced a regression that caused useradd to behave incorrectly in Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04 ESM, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. This update reverts the security fix pending further investigation. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Florian Weimer discovered that shadow was not properly copying and removing user directory trees, which could lead to a race condition. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to setup a symlink attack and alter or remove directories without authorization.

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Public exploits

0 found

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Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

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Affected systems

Ubuntu1 product
  • shadow< 1:4.1.5.1-1ubuntu9.5+esm3 | < 1:4.2-3.1ubuntu5.5+esm3 | < 1:4.5-1ubuntu2.5 | < 1:4.8.1-1ubuntu5.20.04.4

1 vendor · 1 product

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