# CVE-2020-8933: Priviged Escalation in Google Cloud Platform's Guest-OSLogin

> A user with OS Login role can escalate to root by exploiting LXD group membership to modify host sudoers, affecting GCP instances.

- **Severity:** Critical 9.3 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 22 Jun 2020
- **Updated:** 4 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-29jr-2926-3w9p, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-8933

## What is CVE-2020-8933?

CVE-2020-8933 is a critical vulnerability in Opensuse Leap, published on 22 Jun 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

A vulnerability in Google Cloud Platform's guest-oslogin versions between 20190304 and 20200507 allows a user that is only granted the role "roles/compute.osLogin" to escalate privileges to root. Using the membership to the "lxd" group, an attacker can attach host devices and filesystems. Within an lxc container, it is possible to attach the host OS filesystem and modify /etc/sudoers to then gain administrative privileges. All images created after 2020-May-07 (20200507) are fixed, and if you cannot update, we recommend you edit /etc/group/security.conf and remove the "lxd" user from the OS Login entry.

Weakness: CWE-276 (Incorrect Default Permissions)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-8933?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Google Guest-Oslogin, Opensuse Leap.

## How do I fix CVE-2020-8933?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

## Is CVE-2020-8933 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-8933 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Opensuse Leap

- [CVE-2020-8907](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-8907/): Priviged Escalation in Google Cloud Platform's Guest-OSLogin (critical 9.3)
- [CVE-2020-8903](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-8903/): Priviged Escalation in Google Cloud Platform's Guest-OSLogin (high 7.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2020-8933 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2020-8933 is a critical vulnerability in Opensuse Leap, published on 22 Jun 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-8933 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Opensuse Leap. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-8933/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-8933/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-8933
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8933
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-8933

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-8933/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.