vulnerability
Arch Linux: Privilege escalation (CVE-2019-19882)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) | Dec 18, 2019 | Jul 11, 2025 | Nov 27, 2025 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Dec 18, 2019
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025
Description
shadow 4.8, in certain circumstances affecting at least Gentoo, Arch Linux, and Void Linux, allows local users to obtain root access because setuid programs are misconfigured. Specifically, this affects shadow 4.8 when compiled using --with-libpam but without explicitly passing --disable-account-tools-setuid, and without a PAM configuration suitable for use with setuid account management tools. This combination leads to account management tools (groupadd, groupdel, groupmod, useradd, userdel, usermod) that can easily be used by unprivileged local users to escalate privileges to root in multiple ways. This issue became much more relevant in approximately December 2019 when an unrelated bug was fixed (i.e., the chmod calls to suidusbins were fixed in the upstream Makefile which is now included in the release version 4.8).
Solution
arch-linux-upgrade-latest
References
- CVE-2019-19882
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2019-19882
- URL-https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/64836
- URL-https://bugs.gentoo.org/702252
- URL-https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/commit/edf7547ad5aa650be868cf2dac58944773c12d75
- URL-https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/pull/199
- URL-https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/17580
- URL-https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201912-4
- URL-https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-09
- CWE-732
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