Local privilege escalation via controlling-terminal ioctl injection
Published Oct 20, 2023 · Updated Sep 12, 2024
Privilege escalation in Ed Neville Please 0.5.4 and earlier allows local users to execute commands as a more privileged delegated user. The please command runs delegated programs on the caller's controlling terminal, allowing a child process to inject keystrokes with TIOCSTI or TIOCLINUX for the parent shell to execute. The attack requires permission to run a crafted command and a Linux system where at least one ioctl remains enabled; when both are disabled, the attack is blocked.
Summary
What happened
Privilege escalation in Ed Neville Please 0.5.4 and earlier allows local users to execute commands as a more privileged delegated user. The please command runs delegated programs on the caller's controlling terminal, allowing a child process to inject keystrokes with TIOCSTI or TIOCLINUX for the parent shell to execute. The attack requires permission to run a crafted command and a Linux system where at least one ioctl remains enabled; when both are disabled, the attack is blocked.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-46277
- Published
- Oct 20, 2023
- Updated
- Sep 12, 2024
- Vendor
- Ed Neville
- Product
- Please
- Classifications
- CWE-269, T1068
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Oct 20, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 12, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=0 <=0.5.4
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Public exploit references
- TIOCSTI ioctl proof of conceptproof of concept · demonstrated
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