Privilege Escalation Affecting tailscale.com/ssh/tailssh package, versions >=1.34.0 <1.38.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-GOLANG-TAILSCALECOMSSHTAILSSH-3370269
  • published24 Mar 2023
  • disclosed23 Mar 2023
  • creditRyan Belgrave

Introduced: 23 Mar 2023

CVE-2023-28436  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tailscale.com/ssh/tailssh to version 1.38.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Escalation by allowing commands to be run with a higher privilege group ID than that specified by Tailscale SSH access rules.

Note: Only users on FreeBSD platform are affected by this issue.

CVSS Scores

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