#47229 - Local privilege escalation via guix-daemon and ‘--keep-failed’

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Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2021 13:56:27 -0400
From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#47229: Local privilege escalation via guix-daemon and ‘--keep-failed’
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On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 12:17:15PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès 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 within the build
> directory to a root-owned file from outside of the build directory, such
> as ‘/etc/shadow’.  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 has been assigned CVE-2021-27851.

Soon, it should be available in the CVE database at
<https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-27851>

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#47229 Local privilege escalation via guix-daemon and ‘--keep-failed’