CVE-2021-25630

Summary

CVECVE-2021-25630
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-02-23 16:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-02-27 03:04:00 UTC
Description"loolforkit" is a privileged program that is supposed to be run by a special, non-privileged "lool" user. Before doing anything else "loolforkit" checks, if it was invoked by the "lool" user, and refuses to run with privileges, if it's not the case. In the vulnerable version of "loolforkit" this check was wrong, so a normal user could start "loolforkit" and eventually get local root privileges.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-269

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Collaboraoffice Online All All All All
Application Collaboraoffice Online All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
oss-security - libreoffice-online "loolforkit" privileged program local root exploit MISC www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
CVE-2021-25630: "loolforkit" privileged program local root exploit · Advisory · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub MISC github.com Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: Thanks to Matthias Gerstner (SUSE) for raising the issue.

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