CVE-2021-27851

Summary

CVECVE-2021-27851
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-04-26 16:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-07-29 16:34:00 UTC
DescriptionA 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-59

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnu Guix All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Risk of local privilege escalation via guix-daemon — 2021 — Blog — GNU Guix MISC guix.gnu.org
#47229 - Local privilege escalation via guix-daemon and ‘--keep-failed’ - GNU bug report logs MISC bugs.gnu.org
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: Nathan Nye of WhiteBeam Security

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 179464 Debian Security Update for guix (CVE-2021-27851)

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