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CVE-2020-8933

Priviged Escalation in Google Cloud Platform's Guest-OSLogin

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 20200507
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: total

Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Google LLC guest-oslogin

    From 20190304 · fixed in 20200507

References 5

GitHub · GoogleCloudPlatform/guest-oslogin

gitlab.com

cloud.google.com

lists.opensuse.org