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CVE-2019-19726

CVE-2019-19726

38Vexday Risk Score

Patch soon. It has a working public exploit.

ssvc Attendepss 3.5%
from disclosure to weapon4 days
Published on NVDDec 12
1st PoC+4d
metasploitDec 11
exploitation probability
3.5%top 12% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
5 public exploit(s)
OpenBSD through 6.6 allows local users to escalate to root because a check for LD_LIBRARY_PATH in setuid programs can be defeated by setting a very small RLIMIT_DATA resource limit. When executing chpass or passwd (which are setuid root), _dl_setup_env in ld.so tries to strip LD_LIBRARY_PATH from the environment, but fails when it cannot allocate memory. Thus, the attacker is able to execute their own library code as root.
Affected products
n/a · n/a
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