CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-43414

7.0 HIGH Published 2021-11-07 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-11-07
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-287

Description

An issue was discovered in GNU Hurd before 0.9 20210404-9. The use of an authentication protocol in the proc server is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks, which can be exploited for local privilege escalation to get full root access.

Affected configurations

• gnu hurd (< 0.9.20210404-9)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness

References