Security Advisory

CVE-2021-40084

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2021-08-25 00:21:25
Last updated 2024-08-04 02:27:31
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

opensysusers through 0.6 does not safely use eval on files in sysusers.d that may contain shell metacharacters. For example, it allows command execution via a crafted GECOS field whereas systemd-sysusers (a program with the same specification) does not do that.