CVE-2021-3978

HIGH

cloudflare/octorpki < 1.4.2 - Local Privilege Escalation via rsync suid Bit Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

When copying files with rsync, octorpki uses the "-a" flag 0, which forces rsync to copy binaries with the suid bit set as root. Since the provided service definition defaults to root ( https://github.com/cloudflare/cfrpki/blob/master/package/octorpki.service ) this could allow for a vector, when combined with another vulnerability that causes octorpki to process a malicious TAL file, for a local privilege escalation.

References (1)

Core 1

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0014
EPSS Percentile 3.3%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-269
Status published
Products (2)
cloudflare/cfrpki 0 - 1.4.2Go
cloudflare/octorpki < 1.4.2
Published Jan 29, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026