CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-24356

7.8 HIGH Published 2020-10-02 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-10-02
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-427

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.

Affected configurations

• cloudflare cloudflared (< 2020.8.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element weakness

References