Security Advisory

CVE-2019-20044

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2020-02-24 13:09:43
Last updated 2024-08-05 02:32:10
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

In Zsh before 5.8, attackers able to execute commands can regain privileges dropped by the --no-PRIVILEGED option. Zsh fails to overwrite the saved uid, so the original privileges can be restored by executing MODULE_PATH=/dir/with/module zmodload with a module that calls setuid().