CVE-2024-9050CWE-94

Networkmanager-libreswan: local privilege escalation via leftupdown

High · published October 22, 2024

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
38.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A flaw was found in the libreswan client plugin for NetworkManager (NetkworkManager-libreswan), where it fails to properly sanitize the VPN configuration from the local unprivileged user. In this configuration, composed by a key-value format, the plugin fails to escape special characters, leading the application to interpret values as keys. One of the most critical parameters that could be abused by a malicious user is the `leftupdown`key. This key takes an executable command as a value and is used to specify what executes as a callback in NetworkManager-libreswan to retrieve configuration settings back to NetworkManager. As NetworkManager uses Polkit to allow an unprivileged user to control the system's network configuration, a malicious actor could achieve local privilege escalation and potential code execution as root in the targeted machine by creating a malicious configuration.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00457 · 38.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-94 · Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
Published
2024-10-22T12:14Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 OCT 12:14Z
    Networkmanager-libreswan: local privilege escalation via leftupdown
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