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Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2021 13:58:40 -0400
From: Leo Famulari <leo@...ulari.name>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Risk of local privilege escalation in GNU Guix
On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 05:27:09PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> # Vulnerability
>
> The attack consists in having an unprivileged user spawn a build process, for
> instance with `guix build`, that makes its build directory world-writable. The
> user then creates a hardlink to a root-owned file such as `/etc/shadow` in that
> build directory. If the user passed the `--keep-failed` option and the build
> eventually fails, the daemon changes ownership of the whole build tree,
> including the hardlink, to the user. At that point, the user has write access
> to the target file.
This is CVE-2021-27851.
We are very grateful for the invaluable assistance of CERT/CC in getting
this assigned.
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