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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.147193
Category:Privilege escalation
Title:Quagga <= 1.2.4 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Summary:Quagga is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability.
Description:Summary:
Quagga is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability.

Vulnerability Insight:
Unsafe chown/chmod operations in the suggested spec file allow
users (with control of the non-root-owned directory /etc/quagga) to escalate their privileges to
root upon package installation or update.

Affected Software/OS:
Quagga version 1.2.4 and prior.

Solution:
No known solution was made available for at least one year since
the disclosure of this vulnerability. Likely none will be provided anymore. General solution options
are to upgrade to a newer release, disable respective features, remove the product or replace the
product by another one.

CVSS Score:
7.2

CVSS Vector:
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2021-44038
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1191890
https://github.com/Quagga/quagga/releases
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