Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 7, 2021· Updated Aug 4, 2024
CVE-2021-43414
CVE-2021-43414
Description
An issue was discovered in GNU Hurd before 0.9 20210404-9. The use of an authentication protocol in the proc server is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks, which can be exploited for local privilege escalation to get full root access.
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Affected products
2- GNU/GNU Hurddescription
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
2- lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2021-05/msg00079.htmlmitrex_refsource_MISC
- www.mail-archive.com/bug-hurd%40gnu.org/msg32114.htmlmitrex_refsource_MISC
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