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CVE-2021-44038

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2021-11-19 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Quagga Quagga

Weakness Type

CWE-59

References