Fedora consolehelper privilege escalation
| fedora-consolehelper-privilege-escalation (42867) |  High Risk |
Description:
Fedora could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by the missing USER=root directive in the default "consolehelper" configuration files. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerabilty and run the system-config-network program with root privileges to gain access to the console and modify the network configuration.
*CVSS:
| Base Score: | 7.2 |
| Access Vector: | Local |
| Access Complexity: | Low |
| Authentication: | None |
| Confidentiality Impact: | Complete |
| Integrity Impact: | Complete |
| Availability Impact: | Complete |
| Temporal Score: | 5.3 |
| Exploitability: | Unproven |
| Remediation Level: | Official-Fix |
| Report Confidence: | Confirmed |
Consequences:
Gain Privileges
Remedy:
Refer to Red Hat Bugzilla Bug 448557 for patch, upgrade or suggested workaround information. See References.
References:
- Fedora Project Web site: SystemConfig/network.
- FEDORA-2008-4633: Fedora 8 Update: system-config-network-1.5.10-1.fc8.
- Red Hat Bugzilla Bug 448557: CVE-2008-2359 system-config-network: network configuration change by the unprivileged user.
- CVE-2008-2359: The default configuration of consolehelper in system-config-network before 1.5.10-1 on Fedora 8 lacks the USER=root directive, which allows local users of the workstation console to gain privileges and change the network configuration.
- SA30399: Fedora update for system-config-network
Platforms Affected:
- FedoraProject ConsoleHelper 1.4.4
- FedoraProject ConsoleHelper 1.4.5
- FedoraProject ConsoleHelper 1.4.6
- FedoraProject ConsoleHelper 1.4.7
- FedoraProject ConsoleHelper 1.5.0
- FedoraProject ConsoleHelper 1.5.1
- FedoraProject ConsoleHelper 1.5.10
- FedoraProject ConsoleHelper 1.5.2
- FedoraProject ConsoleHelper 1.5.3
- FedoraProject ConsoleHelper 1.5.4
- FedoraProject ConsoleHelper 1.5.5
- FedoraProject ConsoleHelper 1.5.6
- FedoraProject ConsoleHelper 1.5.7
- FedoraProject ConsoleHelper 1.5.8
- FedoraProject ConsoleHelper 1.5.9
Reported:
May 27, 2008
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