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GHSA-3g2j-vm47-x4mj
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Impact
This affects any LXD user in an environment where an unprivileged user may have root access to a container with an attached custom storage volume that has the security.shifted property set to true as well as access to the host as an unprivileged user.
The most common case for this would be systems using lxd-user with the less privileged lxd group to provide unprivileged users with an isolated restricted access to LXD. Such users may be able to create a custom storage volume with the necessary property (depending on kernel and filesystem support) and can then write a setuid binary from within the container which can be executed as an unprivileged user on the host to gain root privileges.
Patches
Patches for this issue are available:
- LXD 6 series: https://github.com/canonical/lxd/pull/16904
- LXD 5.21 LTS series: https://github.com/canonical/lxd/pull/16922
- LXD 5.0 LTS series: https://github.com/canonical/lxd/pull/16923
- LXD 4.0 LTS series: https://github.com/canonical/lxd/pull/16924
The first commit changes the permissions for any new storage pool, the later commit adds a patch that applies it on startup to all existing storage pools.
These fixes are also available in the associated candidate snap channels for each LTS series:
- 5.21/candidate (5.21.4-8a3cf61)
- 5.0/candidate (5.0.5-5c60378)
- 4.0/candidate (4.0.10-35a8127)
We will be preparing intermediate releases to the associated stable snap channels shortly.
Workarounds
Permissions can be manually restricted until a patched version of LXD is deployed.
This is done with:
sudo nsenter --mount=/run/snapd/ns/lxd.mnt -- chmod 0700 /var/snap/lxd/common/lxd/storage-pools/*/{custom*,virtual-machines*,images}
sudo nsenter --mount=/run/snapd/ns/lxd.mnt -- chmod 0711 /var/snap/lxd/common/lxd/storage-pools/*/{containers*,buckets*}
Those are the same permissions which will be applied by the patched LXD for both new and existing storage pools.
References
This was reported to Incus publicly on Github here:
- https://github.com/lxc/incus/security/advisories/GHSA-56mx-8g9f-5crf
- https://github.com/lxc/incus/issues/2641
The vulnerability requires local access to the device to be exploited. It is easy for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker does not need any special privileges or access rights. No user interaction is needed for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability.
Exploitation attempts have been detected. Elevated vigilance and prompt remediation are advised.
Probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.
We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.
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