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Vulnerability · Published Jun 9, 2021 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2021-33393

High 8.8

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 59.3% (higher than 99.1% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Metasploit, public proof-of-concept code.

Severity (CVSS NVD)8.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)59.3%top 0.9% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack tooling2Metasploit, Public PoC

Official 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.

Affected products (as reported)

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