CVE-2019-3844
systemd: services with DynamicUser can get new privileges and create SGID binaries
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.0
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Published · April 25, 2019
Updated · November 22, 2025
Description
It was discovered that a systemd service that uses DynamicUser property can get new privileges through the execution of SUID binaries, which would allow a cooperating process to create binaries owned by the service transient group with the setgid bit set. A local attacker may use this flaw to access resources that will be owned by a potentially different service in the future when the GID will be recycled.
Statement
This issue did not affect the versions of systemd as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 as they did not include support for DynamicUser property.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.0 · 4.5CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE-268 · Privilege Chaining