Vulnerability in shadow
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A vulnerability tracked as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-7169 has been found in shadow.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade shadow to 1:4.7-1 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "shadow DEBIAN-CVE-2018-7169" on the vendor's site.
DEBIAN-CVE-2018-7169 (shadow)
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated / no user interaction
Patched: 1:4.7-1 — apply immediately
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 (unclassified) exists in shadow.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of shadow.
Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 1:4.7-1.
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' . 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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1
Identify exposureidentify
grep -r 'shadow' . | 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を grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2
Apply patchpatch
Upgrade shadow to 1:4.7-1ステージング環境で 1:4.7-1 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3
Post-deployment verificationverify
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。
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian:12 | shadow |
< 1:4.7-1 |
1:4.7-1 |
| Debian:13 | shadow |
< 1:4.7-1 |
1:4.7-1 |
| Debian:14 | shadow |
< 1:4.7-1 |
1:4.7-1 |
Original description The description as published by the source.
An issue was discovered in shadow 4.5. newgidmap (in shadow-utils) is setuid and allows an unprivileged user to be placed in a user namespace where setgroups(2) is permitted. This allows an attacker to remove themselves from a supplementary group, which may allow access to certain filesystem paths if the administrator has used "group blacklisting" (e.g., chmod g-rwx) to restrict access to paths. This flaw effectively reverts a security feature in the kernel (in particular, the /proc/self/setgroups knob) to prevent this sort of privilege escalation.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV
References
- advisory security-tracker.debian.org