Kernel privilege escalation via signed syscall check
Published May 11, 2020 · Updated Sep 17, 2024
Privilege escalation in affected Zephyr RTOS releases allows local users with user-thread code execution to gain kernel privileges. ARM and ARC syscall dispatch code compares the attacker-controlled syscall number to the table limit as a signed integer, so a large unsigned value passes the check and selects an attacker-controlled function pointer. Exploitation requires Zephyr userspace and existing code execution in a user thread; successful use executes code with kernel privileges.
Summary
What happened
Privilege escalation in affected Zephyr RTOS releases allows local users with user-thread code execution to gain kernel privileges. ARM and ARC syscall dispatch code compares the attacker-controlled syscall number to the table limit as a signed integer, so a large unsigned value passes the check and selects an attacker-controlled function pointer. Exploitation requires Zephyr userspace and existing code execution in a user thread; successful use executes code with kernel privileges.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2020-10024
- Published
- May 11, 2020
- Updated
- Sep 17, 2024
- Vendor
- Zephyr Project
- Product
- Zephyr RTOS
- Classifications
- CWE-697, T1068
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- May 11, 2020CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 17, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=1.14.0 <unspecified
- Affected versionversion=2.1.0 <unspecified
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