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GHSA-hgwp-4vp4-qmm2 Local Privilege Escalation in cloudflared

HIGH Published 2021-05-24 Modified 2023-03-02 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2020-24356
Ecosystem
Go
Packages
github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-427
Reviewed
2021-05-24

Affected packages

• Go github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared: < 0.0.0-20200820025921-9323844ea773 → fixed in 0.0.0-20200820025921-9323844ea773

Description

In `cloudflared` versions < 2020.8.1 (corresponding to 0.0.0-20200820025921-9323844ea773 on pkg.go.dev) on Windows, if an administrator has started `cloudflared` and set it to read configuration files from a certain directory, an unprivileged user can exploit a misconfiguration in order to escalate privileges and execute system-level commands. The misconfiguration was due to the way that `cloudflared` reads its configuration file. One of the locations that `cloudflared` reads from (C:\etc\) is not a secure by default directory due to the fact that Windows does not enforce access controls on this directory without further controls applied. A malformed config.yaml file can be written by any user. Upon reading this config, `cloudflared` would output an error message to a log file defined in the malformed config. The user-controlled log file location could be set to a specific location that Windows will execute when any user logs in.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2020-24356 `cloudflared` versions prior to 2020.8.1 contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability on Windows systems. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element weakness

References