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Security Advisories: GSA_kwCzR0hTQS1wNzU2LXJmeGgteDYzaM4AAx-a
Azure/setup-kubectl: Escalation of privilege vulnerability for v3 and lower
Impact
This vulnerability only impacts versions v2
and lower. An insecure temporary creation of a file allows other actors on the Actions runner to replace the Kubectl binary created by this action because it is world writable. This Kubectl tool installer runs fs.chmodSync(kubectlPath, 777)
to set permissions on the Kubectl binary, however, this allows any local user to replace the Kubectl binary. This allows privilege escalation to the user that can also run kubectl, most likely root. This attack is only possible if an attacker somehow breached the GitHub actions runner or if a user is utilizing an Action that maliciously executes this attack.
No impacted customers have been reported.
Patches
This has been fixed and released in all versions v3
and later. 755 permissions are used instead.
Workarounds
If users absolutely cannot upgrade to v3
or higher than they should be extra diligent of the other GitHub actions they are using in a workflow and ensure that their GitHub actions runner is secure.
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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: Low
Classification: General
Published: about 1 year ago
Updated: about 1 year ago
CVSS Score: 3.0
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
Identifiers: GHSA-p756-rfxh-x63h, CVE-2023-23939
References:
- https://github.com/Azure/setup-kubectl/security/advisories/GHSA-p756-rfxh-x63h
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-23939
- https://github.com/Azure/setup-kubectl/commit/d449d75495d2b9d1463555bb00ca3dca77a42ab6
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p756-rfxh-x63h
Blast Radius: 1.0
Affected Packages
actions:Azure/setup-kubectl
Affected Version Ranges: < 3Fixed in: 3