CVE-2021-43413

HIGH

GNU Hurd <0.9 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue was discovered in GNU Hurd before 0.9 20210404-9. A single pager port is shared among everyone who mmaps a file, allowing anyone to modify any files that they can read. This can be trivially exploited to get full root access.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Exploit, Mailing List, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2021-05/msg00079.html
Mailing List, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2002-11/msg00263.html
Mailing List, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2005-06/msg00191.html

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0106
EPSS Percentile 77.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (1)
gnu/hurd < 0.9.20210404-9
Published Nov 07, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026