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CVE-2021-44038

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-11-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-59

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 products

• quagga: through 1.2.4

References

• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1191890
• https://github.com/Quagga/quagga/releases
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1191890
• https://github.com/Quagga/quagga/releases

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