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CVE-2021-44038

7.8 highEPSS 0.8%

High (7.8) in quagga quagga. EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in Quagga through 1.2.4. 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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 56% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-59
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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