Privilege Escalation Affecting billz/raspap-webgui package, versions <2.6.6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.62% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-BILLZRASPAPWEBGUI-1569244
  • published24 Aug 2021
  • disclosed24 Aug 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Aug 2021

CVE-2021-38557  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

Upgrade billz/raspap-webgui to version 2.6.6 or higher.

Overview

billz/raspap-webgui is a Simple wireless AP setup and mangement for Debian-based devices.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Escalation. It allows attackers to execute commands as root because of the insecure sudoers permissions. The www-data account can execute /etc/raspap/hostapd/enablelog.sh as root with no password; however, the www-data account can also overwrite /etc/raspap/hostapd/enablelog.sh with any executable content.

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