CVE-2013-6441

Description

The lxc-sshd template (templates/lxc-sshd.in) in LXC before 1.0.0.beta2 uses read-write permissions when mounting /sbin/init, which allows local users to gain privileges by modifying the init file.

CVSS Metrics

• v2.0•HIGH•Score: 7.2AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.03%• Percentile: 11%

Techniques & Countermeasures

• CWE-264•Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

  Weaknesses in this category are related to the management of permissions, privileges, and other security features that are used to perform access control.

Affected Systems

• linuxcontainers•lxc

  ≤ 0.9.0 | 0.1.0 | 0.2.0 | 0.2.1 | 0.3.0 | 0.4.0 | 0.5.0 | 0.5.1 | 0.5.2 | 0.6.0 | 0.6.1 | 0.6.2 | 0.6.3 | 0.6.4 | 0.6.5 | 0.7.0 | 0.7.1 | 0.7.2 | 0.7.3 | 0.7.4 | 0.7.4.1 | 0.7.4.2 | 0.7.5 | 0.8.0

References (4)

• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2104-1
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/%2Bsource/lxc/%2Bbug/1261045
• https://github.com/lxc/lxc/commit/f4d5cc8e1f39d132b61e110674528cac727ae0e2
• https://github.com/dotcloud/lxc/pull/1