CVE-2021-25630

HIGH

Collabora Online 4.2.0-4.2.12 - Privilege Escalation via loolforkit User Check Bypass

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

"loolforkit" is a privileged program that is supposed to be run by a special, non-privileged "lool" user. Before doing anything else "loolforkit" checks, if it was invoked by the "lool" user, and refuses to run with privileges, if it's not the case. In the vulnerable version of "loolforkit" this check was wrong, so a normal user could start "loolforkit" and eventually get local root privileges.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/18/3

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0031
EPSS Percentile 22.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-269
Status published
Products (1)
collaboraoffice/online 4.2.0 - 4.2.13
Published Feb 23, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026