CVE-2020-24356

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-24356
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-10-02 15:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-07-21 11:39:00 UTC
Description`cloudflared` versions prior to 2020.8.1 contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability on Windows systems. When run on a Windows system, `cloudflared` searches for configuration files which could be abused by a malicious entity to execute commands as a privileged user. Version 2020.8.1 fixes this issue.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-427

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Cloudflare Cloudflared All All All All
Application Cloudflare Cloudflared All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Local Privilege Escalation in cloudflared · Advisory · cloudflare/cloudflared · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Third Party Advisory
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Legacy QID Mappings

  • 981837 Go (go) Security Update for github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared (GHSA-hgwp-4vp4-qmm2)
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