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Debian: CVE-2019-19191: shibboleth-sp -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Nov 21, 2019
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-shibboleth-sp
Title
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