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CVE-2021-40084

CRITICAL CVSS: 9.8 Published: 2021-08-25 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Artixlinux Opensysusers

Weakness Type

CWE-94

References