Medium severity6.3NVD Advisory· Published May 27, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2020-10737
CVE-2020-10737
Description
A race condition was found in the mkhomedir tool shipped with the oddjob package in versions before 0.34.5 and 0.34.6 wherein, during the home creation, mkhomedir copies the /etc/skel directory into the newly created home and changes its ownership to the home's user without properly checking the homedir path. This flaw allows an attacker to leverage this issue by creating a symlink point to a target folder, which then has its ownership transferred to the new home directory's unprivileged user.
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Affected products
5- Red Hat/oddjobv5Range: before 0.34.5
Patches
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References
2- pagure.io/oddjob/c/10b8aaa1564b723a005b53acc069df71313f4cacnvdPatchThird Party Advisory
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
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