CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-45809

Published: Mar 22, 2022 | Modified: Oct 19, 2022

CVSS 3.x

9.8

CRITICAL

Source:

NVD

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

CVSS 2.x

10 HIGH

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-45809
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/.html

GlobalProtect-openconnect versions prior to 1.4.3 are affected by incorrect access control in GPService through DBUS, GUI Application. The way GlobalProtect-Openconnect is set up enables arbitrary users to execute commands as root by submitting the --script=<script> parameter.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Globalprotect-openconnect	Globalprotect-openconnect_project	*	1.4.3 (excluding)

References

https://github.com/yuezk/GlobalProtect-openconnect/issues/113

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