CVE-2021-44038

PoC —

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

EPSS

<1%p54

Published

Nov 19, 2021 (Nov 19, 2021)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

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.

Vendors: quagga
Products: quagga
Weakness: CWE-59
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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