Privilege Escalation Affecting github.com/gravitational/teleport/lib/teleagent package, versions <7.3.23>=8.0.0-alpha.1 <8.3.14>=9.0.0-beta.1 <9.3.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMGRAVITATIONALTELEPORTLIBTELEAGENT-2869123
  • published15 Jun 2022
  • disclosed12 Jun 2022
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Jun 2022

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade github.com/gravitational/teleport/lib/teleagent to version 7.3.23, 8.3.14, 9.3.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Escalation when setting up agent forwarding. This allows users to grant arbitrary file permissions to themselves.

CVSS Scores

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