Vulnerability in shadow-utils (CVE-2024-56433)
Summary
Vulnerability in shadow-utils (CVE-2024-56433). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
shadow-utils (aka shadow) 4.4 through 4.17.0 establishes a default /etc/subuid behavior (e.g., uid 100000 through 165535 for the first user account) that can realistically conflict with the uids of users defined on locally administered networks, potentially leading to account takeover, e.g., by leveraging newuidmap for access to an NFS home directory (or same-host resources in the case of remote logins by these local network users). NOTE: it may also be argued that system administrators should not have assigned uids, within local networks, that are within the range that can occur in /etc/subuid.
Source: GitHub Security Advisories (Global) NVD GitHub Advisory
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-56433 has been found in shadow-utils.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 3.6/10.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "shadow-utils CVE-2024-56433" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2024-56433 (shadow-utils) — CWE-1188 / CVSS v3 3.6
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-1188) exists in shadow-utils.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of shadow-utils.
Severity: Low (CVSS 3.6/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'shadow-utils' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'shadow-utils' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
shadow-utilsを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-56433 shadow
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-56433 shadow
References
- web nvd.nist.gov
- web cve@mitre.org
- web cve@mitre.org
- web cve@mitre.org
- web cert-portal.siemens.com
- web github.com