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CVE-2019-15901 Details

Description

An issue was discovered in slicer69 doas before 6.2 on certain platforms other than OpenBSD. A setusercontext(3) call with flags to change the UID, primary GID, and secondary GIDs was replaced (on certain platforms: Linux and possibly NetBSD) with a single setuid(2) call. This resulted in neither changing the group id nor initializing secondary group ids.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:8.8 HIGHVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
https://github.com/slicer69/doas/commit/6cf0236184ff6304bf5e267ccf7ef02874069697	CVE	PatchThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/slicer69/doas/compare/6.1p1...6.2	CVE	PatchRelease NotesThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/slicer69/doas/pull/23	CVE	ExploitThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/slicer69/doas/commit/6cf0236184ff6304bf5e267ccf7ef02874069697	[email protected]	PatchThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/slicer69/doas/compare/6.1p1...6.2	[email protected]	PatchRelease NotesThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/slicer69/doas/pull/23	[email protected]	ExploitThird Party Advisory

see all 6 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-269	Improper Privilege Management	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
doas project doas	< 6.2
CPE cpe:2.3:a:doas_project:doas:::::::: Remediation No remediation found in references.
linux linux kernel	All versions
CPE cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:-:::::::* Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

5 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 17, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Aug 24, 2020	CWE Remap	[email protected]
Oct 22, 2019	Initial Analysis	[email protected]