CVE-2020-11081

osquery susceptible to DLL search order hijacking of zlib1.dll

State: Published
Severity: 5.3 Medium
Published: Jul 10, 2020
Updated: Aug 4, 2024
Reserved: Mar 30, 2020

Description

osquery before version 4.4.0 enables a privilege escalation vulnerability. If a Window system is configured with a PATH that contains a user-writable directory then a local user may write a zlib1.dll DLL, which osquery will attempt to load. Since osquery runs with elevated privileges this enables local escalation. This is fixed in version 4.4.0.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-114 Process Control

Affected Products

Product	Versions
osqueryosquery	< 4.4.0Affected

References

https://github.com/osquery/osquery/security/advisories/GHSA-2xwp-8fv7-c5pm
https://github.com/osquery/osquery/issues/6426
https://github.com/osquery/osquery/pull/6433
https://github.com/osquery/osquery/commit/4d4957f12a6aa0becc9d01d9f97061e1e3d809c5
https://github.com/osquery/osquery/releases/tag/4.4.0

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