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CVE-2019-3844
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2019-04-26 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-268
Description
It was discovered that a systemd service that uses DynamicUser property can get new privileges through the execution of SUID binaries, which would allow to create binaries owned by the service transient group with the setgid bit set. A local attacker may use this flaw to access resources that will be owned by a potentially different service in the future, when the GID will be recycled.
Affected products
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04, 18.04, 19.10
- NetApp Cn1610 Firmware: all versions
- NetApp Hci Management Node: all versions
- NetApp Snapprotect: all versions
- NetApp Solidfire: all versions
- systemd: before 242 — fixed in 242
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: systemd 242. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108096
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3844
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190619-0002/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4269-1/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108096
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3844
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190619-0002/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4269-1/
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