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Edgeless Systems Contrast 1.8.0 before 1.24.1 World-Writable Containerd Config Privilege Escalation

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severity
high
date
Affecting

  • contrast >= 1.8.0, < 1.24.1

CWE
  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
CVSS
8.5
CVSS V4 Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Credit
rechard-edward, B1ueD0g, muhammad-usama-sardar, burgerdev, sespiros
Description
Edgeless Systems Contrast 1.8.0 before 1.24.1 contains an incorrect permissions vulnerability where the node installer writes the containerd config world-writable (0666). Local unprivileged users on the node can modify the containerd config, for example overwriting the runc location, to escalate privileges.

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