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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2021-33393

It might be owned by an unprivileged account, which could potentially be used to install a Trojan horse backup.pl script that is later executed by root.

HIGH 8.8EPSS 58.7%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 58.7%, higher than 99% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

lfs/backup in IPFire 2.25-core155 does not ensure that /var/ipfire/backup/bin/backup.pl is owned by the root account. It might be owned by an unprivileged account, which could potentially be used to install a Trojan horse backup.pl script that is later executed by root. Similar problems with the ownership/permissions of other files may be present as well.

CVSS 3.1
8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
58.73% probability · 99th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Affected
ipfire/ipfire
Source
cve@mitre.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.