Incorrect permission assignment for critical resource - CVE-2019-25016
Published: February 3, 2021
Vulnerability identifier: #VU50299
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-25016
CWE-ID: CWE-732
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated user to execute arbitrary code.
In OpenDoas from 6.6 to 6.8 the users PATH variable was incorrectly inherited by authenticated executions if the authenticating rule allowed the user to execute any command. Rules that only allowed to authenticated user to execute specific commands were not affected by this issue.
Affected software
Gentoo Linux
Arch Linux
doas (Alpine package)
Arch Linux
doas (Alpine package)
How to mitigate CVE-2019-25016
Install update from vendor's website.