CVE-2021-41617 Privilege escalation in n/a

What is CVE-2021-41617?

CVE-2021-41617 is a high-severity vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 26 Sep 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

sshd in OpenSSH 6.2 through 8.x before 8.8, when certain non-default configurations are used, allows privilege escalation because supplemental groups are not initialized as expected. Helper programs for AuthorizedKeysCommand and AuthorizedPrincipalsCommand may run with privileges associated with group memberships of the sshd process, if the configuration specifies running the command as a different user.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-41617?

It affects 12 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager, Netapp Aff 500f Firmware, Netapp Aff A250 Firmware, Netapp Clustered Data Ontap, Netapp Hci Management Node and 6 more.

How do I fix CVE-2021-41617?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2021-41617 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-41617 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code: 1 proofs of concept on GitHub.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2021-41617, ALSA-2022:2013, CLSA-2021-1639681866, CLSA-2022-1649695840, CLSA-2022-1649695900, CLSA-2023-1688678532 and 18 more.