CVE-2020-8933 Priviged Escalation in Google Cloud Platform's Guest-OSLogin

2020-06-2213:45:26

CWE-276

Google

github.com

9.3 High

CVSS4

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/SC:H/VI:H/SI:H/VA:H/SA:H

7 High

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

33.4%

JSON

A vulnerability in Google Cloud Platform’s guest-oslogin versions between 20190304 and 20200507 allows a user that is only granted the role “roles/compute.osLogin” to escalate privileges to root. Using the membership to the “lxd” group, an attacker can attach host devices and filesystems. Within an lxc container, it is possible to attach the host OS filesystem and modify /etc/sudoers to then gain administrative privileges. All images created after 2020-May-07 (20200507) are fixed, and if you cannot update, we recommend you edit /etc/group/security.conf and remove the “lxd” user from the OS Login entry.

CNA Affected

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  {
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
    "product": "guest-oslogin",
    "vendor": "Google LLC",
    "versions": [
      {
        "lessThan": "20200507",
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "20190304",
        "versionType": "date"
      },
      {
        "status": "unaffected",
        "version": "20200507",
        "versionType": "date"
      }
    ]
  }
]