CVE-2011-0721 (GCVE-0-2011-0721)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-02-18 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 22:05
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Multiple CRLF injection vulnerabilities in (1) chfn and (2) chsh in shadow 1:4.1.4 allow local users to add new users or groups to /etc/passwd via the GECOS field.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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| http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2164 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN |
| http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1065-1 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
| http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0396 | vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN |
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… | vdb-entryx_refsource_XF |
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| http://secunia.com/advisories/42505 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
Date Public
2011-02-16 00:00
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"title": "shadow: Multiple CRLF injections in chfn and chsh",
"url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2011/cve-2011-0721.json",
"version": "3"
}
}
}
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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