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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201908-15">
<title>ZNC: Privilege escalation</title>
<synopsis>A vulnerability in ZNC allows users to escalate privileges.</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">znc</product>
<announced>2019-08-15</announced>
<revised count="1">2019-08-15</revised>
<bug>688152</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="net-irc/znc" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">1.7.4_rc1</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">1.7.4_rc1</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>ZNC is an advanced IRC bouncer.</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>It was discovered that ZNCs “Modules.cpp” allows remote
authenticated non-admin users to escalate privileges.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>A remote authenticated attacker could escalate privileges and
subsequently execute arbitrary code or conduct a Denial of Service
attack.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>All ZNC users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-irc/znc-1.7.4_rc1"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-12816">CVE-2019-12816</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2019-08-11T22:44:54Z">b-man</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2019-08-15T15:56:13Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>