### [CVE-2019-19191](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-19191)
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### Description

Shibboleth Service Provider (SP) 3.x before 3.1.0 shipped a spec file that calls chown on files in a directory controlled by the service user (the shibd account) after installation. This allows the user to escalate to root by pointing symlinks to files such as /etc/shadow.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1157471
- https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/browse/SSPCPP-874

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.