GHSA-hgwp-4vp4-qmm2

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Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hgwp-4vp4-qmm2
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2021/05/GHSA-hgwp-4vp4-qmm2/GHSA-hgwp-4vp4-qmm2.json
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Published
2021-05-24T16:56:35Z
Modified
2024-08-21T15:57:37.506929Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
Local Privilege Escalation in cloudflared
Details

In cloudflared versions < 2020.8.1 (corresponding to 0.0.0-20200820025921-9323844ea773 on pkg.go.dev) on Windows, if an administrator has started cloudflared and set it to read configuration files from a certain directory, an unprivileged user can exploit a misconfiguration in order to escalate privileges and execute system-level commands. The misconfiguration was due to the way that cloudflared reads its configuration file. One of the locations that cloudflared reads from (C:\etc) is not a secure by default directory due to the fact that Windows does not enforce access controls on this directory without further controls applied. A malformed config.yaml file can be written by any user. Upon reading this config, cloudflared would output an error message to a log file defined in the malformed config. The user-controlled log file location could be set to a specific location that Windows will execute when any user logs in.

Database specific
{
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-427"
    ],
    "severity": "HIGH",
    "github_reviewed_at": "2021-05-24T16:52:03Z",
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "nvd_published_at": "2020-10-02T15:15:00Z"
}
References

Affected packages

Go / github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared

Package

Name
github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared
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Purl
pkg:golang/github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared

Affected ranges

Type
SEMVER
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.0.0-20200820025921-9323844ea773