CVE-2021-40084

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-40084
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-40084.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-40084
Downstream
Published
2021-08-25T01:15:12.957Z
Modified
2026-07-08T23:59:04.294427Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/artix-linux/opensysusers

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/artix-linux/opensysusers
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
a59433f191e6f00290d2763810b28b4ae274428f
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:artixlinux:opensysusers:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "source": "CPE_RANGE",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "0.6"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

0.*
0.1
0.2
0.2.1
0.3.0
0.3.1
0.3.2
0.4.0
0.4.1
0.4.2
0.4.3
0.4.4
0.4.5
0.4.6
0.4.7
0.4.8
0.4.9
0.5
0.5.1
0.6

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-40084.json"