Werk #14087: Fix privilege escalation vulnerability

Komponente Checks & agents
Titel Fix privilege escalation vulnerability
Datum 12.05.2022
Checkmk-Edition Checkmk Raw (CRE)
Checkmk-Version 2.2.0b1 2.1.0b9 2.0.0p25 1.6.0p29
Level Bedeutende Änderung
Klasse Sicherheitsfix
Kompatibilität Kompatibel - benötigt kein manuelles Eingreifen

Previously to this Werk an attacker who could become a site user could replace the sites bin/unixcat by a custom executable. The Checkmk agent would then run it as root.

With this Werk the agent now always calls one of the shipped unixcats below /omd/versions/.

All maintained versions (>=1.6) are subject to this vulnerability. It is likely that also previous versions were vulnerable.

To check against possible exploitation make sure that the sites directory ~MySite/bin points to /omd/versions/MySitesVersion/bin.

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H 8.8

CVE will be added here later

We thank Jan-Philipp Litza (PLUTEX GmbH) for bringing this to our attention.

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