CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-43413
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-11-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Description
An issue was discovered in GNU Hurd before 0.9 20210404-9. A single pager port is shared among everyone who mmaps a file, allowing anyone to modify any files that they can read. This can be trivially exploited to get full root access.
Affected configurations
• gnu hurd (< 0.9.20210404-9)
References
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2002-11/msg00263.html Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2005-06/msg00191.html Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2021-05/msg00079.html Exploit, Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mail-archive.com/bug-hurd%40gnu.org/msg32113.html www.mail-archive.com
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2002-11/msg00263.html Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2005-06/msg00191.html Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2021-05/msg00079.html Exploit, Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mail-archive.com/bug-hurd%40gnu.org/msg32113.html www.mail-archive.com