GHSA-hgwp-4vp4-qmm2

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GHSA-hgwp-4vp4-qmm2

Summary: Local Privilege Escalation in cloudflared

Details: In `cloudflared` versions < 2020.8.1 (corresponding to 0.0.0-20200820025921-9323844ea773 on pkg.go.dev) on Windows, if an administrator has started `cloudflared` and set it to read configuration files from a certain directory, an unprivileged user can exploit a misconfiguration in order to escalate privileges and execute system-level commands. The misconfiguration was due to the way that `cloudflared` reads its configuration file. One of the locations that `cloudflared` reads from (C:\etc\) is not a secure by default directory due to the fact that Windows does not enforce access controls on this directory without further controls applied. A malformed config.yaml file can be written by any user. Upon reading this config, `cloudflared` would output an error message to a log file defined in the malformed config. The user-controlled log file location could be set to a specific location that Windows will execute when any user logs in.

References: https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared/security/advisories/GHSA-hgwp-4vp4-qmm2, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-24356, https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared/commit/9323844ea773b1444460fa09295ab8c01a88d97e, https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared