CVE-2021-44038

quagga: unsafe chown/chmod operations may lead to privileges escalation

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

7.3

CVSS 3.1

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Published · November 19, 2021

Updated · November 22, 2025

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.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 7.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-287 · Improper Authentication