# CVE-2019-15901: An issue was discovered in slicer69 doas before 6.2 on certain platforms other than OpenBSD.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2019-10-18 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered in slicer69 doas before 6.2 on certain platforms other than OpenBSD. A setusercontext(3) call with flags to change the UID, primary GID, and secondary GIDs was replaced (on certain platforms: Linux and possibly NetBSD) with a single setuid(2) call. This resulted in neither changing the group id nor initializing secondary group ids.

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## References

- https://github.com/slicer69/doas/compare/6.1p1...6.2
- https://github.com/slicer69/doas/commit/6cf0236184ff6304bf5e267ccf7ef02874069697
- https://github.com/slicer69/doas/pull/23

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