Unprivileged Linux Users With UID > INT_MAX Can Execute Any Command December 6, 2018 https://thehackernews.com/2018/12/linux-user-privilege-policykit.html
Interesting. But only root can create new accounts. And if you have root, why do you need this? To try to hide?
The problem is with programatically configured applications that may have setuid on account creation. Mrk
OK, then, so this is just a subset of getting pwned by malicious apps. But I guess that it wasn't something code reviewers were looking for, in the past. To check: Code: $ cat /etc/passwd | mawk -F : '{ print $3 }' | sort -n | tail -n 1
