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CVE-2020-13776

Published: Jun 3, 2020

Modified: Jun 9, 2025

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Description

systemd through v245 mishandles numerical usernames such as ones composed of decimal digits or 0x followed by hex digits, as demonstrated by use of root privileges when privileges of the 0x0 user account were intended. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2017-1000082.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/15985

x_refsource_MISC

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200611-0003/

x_refsource_CONFIRM

FEDORA-2020-2faf839786

vendor-advisory

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