cvelist/2018/7xxx/CVE-2018-7169.json

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      "ID" : "CVE-2018-7169",
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            "value" : "An issue was discovered in shadow 4.5. newgidmap (in shadow-utils) is setuid and allows an unprivileged user to be placed in a user namespace where setgroups(2) is permitted. This allows an attacker to remove themselves from a supplementary group, which may allow access to certain filesystem paths if the administrator has used \"group blacklisting\" (e.g., chmod g-rwx) to restrict access to paths. This flaw effectively reverts a security feature in the kernel (in particular, the /proc/self/setgroups knob) to prevent this sort of privilege escalation."
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            "name" : "https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shadow/+bug/1729357",
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            "url" : "https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shadow/+bug/1729357"
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