GHSA-p756-rfxh-x63h

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Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p756-rfxh-x63h
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2023/03/GHSA-p756-rfxh-x63h/GHSA-p756-rfxh-x63h.json
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https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-p756-rfxh-x63h
Aliases
Published
2023-03-07T20:07:27Z
Modified
2023-11-08T04:11:43.337197Z
Severity
  • 3.0 (Low) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
Azure/setup-kubectl: Escalation of privilege vulnerability for v3 and lower
Details

Impact

This vulnerability only impacts versions v2 and lower. An insecure temporary creation of a file allows other actors on the Actions runner to replace the Kubectl binary created by this action because it is world writable. This Kubectl tool installer runs fs.chmodSync(kubectlPath, 777) to set permissions on the Kubectl binary, however, this allows any local user to replace the Kubectl binary. This allows privilege escalation to the user that can also run kubectl, most likely root. This attack is only possible if an attacker somehow breached the GitHub actions runner or if a user is utilizing an Action that maliciously executes this attack.

No impacted customers have been reported.

Patches

This has been fixed and released in all versions v3 and later. 755 permissions are used instead.

Workarounds

If users absolutely cannot upgrade to v3 or higher than they should be extra diligent of the other GitHub actions they are using in a workflow and ensure that their GitHub actions runner is secure.

Database specific
{
    "nvd_published_at": "2023-03-06T19:15:00Z",
    "github_reviewed_at": "2023-03-07T20:07:27Z",
    "severity": "LOW",
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-732"
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

GitHub Actions / Azure/setup-kubectl

Package

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3