CVE-2019-19191

Publication date 21 November 2019

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Shibboleth Service Provider (SP) 3.x before 3.1.0 shipped a spec file that calls chown on files in a directory controlled by the service user (the shibd account) after installation. This allows the user to escalate to root by pointing symlinks to files such as /etc/shadow.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
shibboleth-sp	20.10 groovy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	19.10 eoan	Ignored end of life
	19.04 disco	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

ebarretto

According to Debian: This is an issue in the upstream provided spec file which is not relevant for the binary packages build in Debian (fixed upstream in 3.1.0). The postinst in the Debian packaging does not have similar problematic chown logic.

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.8 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H