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GHSA-C5FP-QRW2-8X2W

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-24 22:28 – Updated: 2022-07-30 00:00

Details

A security vulnerability that can lead to local privilege escalation has been found in ’guix-daemon’. It affects multi-user setups in which ’guix-daemon’ runs locally. The attack consists in having an unprivileged user spawn a build process, for instance with guix build, that makes its build directory world-writable. The user then creates a hardlink to a root-owned file such as /etc/shadow in that build directory. If the user passed the --keep-failed option and the build eventually fails, the daemon changes ownership of the whole build tree, including the hardlink, to the user. At that point, the user has write access to the target file. Versions after and including v0.11.0-3298-g2608e40988, and versions prior to v1.2.0-75109-g94f0312546 are vulnerable.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

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CVE-2021-27851 (GCVE-0-2021-27851)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-04-26 15:35 – Updated: 2024-09-17 02:11

Title

Local privilege escalation in GNU Guix via guix-daemon and '--keep-failed'

Summary

A security vulnerability that can lead to local privilege escalation has been found in ’guix-daemon’. It affects multi-user setups in which ’guix-daemon’ runs locally. The attack consists in having an unprivileged user spawn a build process, for instance with `guix build`, that makes its build directory world-writable. The user then creates a hardlink to a root-owned file such as /etc/shadow in that build directory. If the user passed the --keep-failed option and the build eventually fails, the daemon changes ownership of the whole build tree, including the hardlink, to the user. At that point, the user has write access to the target file. Versions after and including v0.11.0-3298-g2608e40988, and versions prior to v1.2.0-75109-g94f0312546 are vulnerable.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-264 - Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

Assigner

certcc CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard E 42/100 over 157 records in the last 180 days details

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2021/risk-of-local-p…	x_refsource_MISC
https://bugs.gnu.org/47229	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
GNU Guix	guix-daemon	Affected: v0.11.0-3298-g2608e40988 , < unspecified (custom) Affected: unspecified , < v1.2.0-75109-g94f0312546 (custom)

Date Public

2021-03-18 00:00

Credits

Nathan Nye of WhiteBeam Security

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