CVE-2021-27851

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.
References
Link Resource
https://bugs.gnu.org/47229 Issue Tracking Mailing List Patch Vendor Advisory
https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2021/risk-of-local-privilege-escalation-via-guix-daemon/ Patch Vendor Advisory
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:gnu:guix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

29 Jul 2022, 16:34

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CWE CWE-269 CWE-59

07 May 2021, 18:28

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References (MISC) https://bugs.gnu.org/47229 - (MISC) https://bugs.gnu.org/47229 - Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
References (MISC) https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2021/risk-of-local-privilege-escalation-via-guix-daemon/ - (MISC) https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2021/risk-of-local-privilege-escalation-via-guix-daemon/ - Patch, Vendor Advisory
CPE cpe:2.3:a:gnu:guix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CWE CWE-269
CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown
v2 : 2.1
v3 : 5.5

26 Apr 2021, 16:36

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New CVE

Information

Published : 2021-04-26 16:15

Updated : 2023-12-10 13:55


NVD link : CVE-2021-27851

Mitre link : CVE-2021-27851

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2021-27851


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Products Affected

gnu

  • guix
CWE
CWE-59

Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

CWE-264

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls