CVE-2020-8933 CRITICAL

CVE-2020-8933: Priviged Escalation in Google Cloud Platform's Guest-OSLogin

Vendor Google Llc
Product guest-oslogin
Weakness CWE-276
Published June 22, 2020
Last update August 4, 2024

CVSS base score

9.3/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality
Integrity

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

A vulnerability in Google Cloud Platform's guest-oslogin versions between 20190304 and 20200507 allows a user that is only granted the role "roles/compute.osLogin" to escalate privileges to root. Using the membership to the "lxd" group, an attacker can attach host devices and filesystems. Within an lxc container, it is possible to attach the host OS filesystem and modify /etc/sudoers to then gain administrative privileges. All images created after 2020-May-07 (20200507) are fixed, and if you cannot update, we recommend you edit /etc/group/security.conf and remove the "lxd" user from the OS Login entry.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

June 22, 2020 CVE published
August 4, 2024 Record updated