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CVE-2020-8933 Details

Description

A vulnerability in Google Cloud Platform's guest-oslogin versions between 20190304 and 20200507 allows a user that is only granted the role "roles/compute.osLogin" to escalate privileges to root. Using the membership to the "lxd" group, an attacker can attach host devices and filesystems. Within an lxc container, it is possible to attach the host OS filesystem and modify /etc/sudoers to then gain administrative privileges. All images created after 2020-May-07 (20200507) are fixed, and if you cannot update, we recommend you edit /etc/group/security.conf and remove the "lxd" user from the OS Login entry.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-276Incorrect Default Permissions[email protected]
CWE-276Incorrect Default Permissions[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
google guest-oslogin
>= 20190304.00, <= 20200507.00

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:google:guest-oslogin:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
opensuse leap
15.1
15.2

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

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QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2020-8933
NVD Published Date:
Jun 22, 2020
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2020-8933 Details - Not Deferred