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Improper Preservation of Permissions in etcd

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Aug 5, 2020 in etcd-io/etcd • Updated Jan 30, 2024

Package

gomod github.com/etcd-io/etcd (Go)

Affected versions

>= 3.4.0-rc.0, < 3.4.10
< 3.3.23

Patched versions

3.4.10
3.3.23

Description

Vulnerability type

Access Controls

Detail

etcd creates certain directory paths (etcd data directory and the directory path when provided to automatically generate self-signed certificates for TLS connections with clients) with restricted access permissions (700) by using the os.MkdirAll. This function does not perform any permission checks when a given directory path exists already.

Specific Go Package Affected

github.com/etcd-io/etcd/pkg/fileutil

Workarounds

Make sure these directories have the desired permit (700).

References

Find out more on this vulnerability in the security audit report

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References

@spzala spzala published to etcd-io/etcd Aug 5, 2020
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 5, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jan 30, 2024
Reviewed Jan 30, 2024
Last updated Jan 30, 2024

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
High
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

EPSS score

0.044%
(14th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2020-15113

GHSA ID

GHSA-chh6-ppwq-jh92

Source code

No known source code
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